Average Quote by Joe Thornton

Really, who thinks of living in California as a Canadian kid? You just don't. Now when I go home to Canada to play a…

— Joe Thornton

Most Americans have so much crap, that you could lose most of it and still have way more stuff than the average Canadian.

— Louis C. K

There are more kids playing hockey, and the game has become more diverse from a cultural, ethnic and geographic point of view, but we…

— Mike Quigley

I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.

— Ellen Page

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather…

— Mordecai Richler

It seems like my whole life I've been this little Canadian kid dreaming somebody would give me a chance.

— Steve Nash

I've been playing hockey games since the Sega Genesis way back when.

— Joe Thornton

Playing goal is like being shot at.

— Jacques Plante

I started playing hockey late and it was unclear until the very last moment if I was talented or not. But it turned out…

— Alexander Ovechkin

I think the game has gotten better. (The two-ref system) keeps players from taking cheap shots behind the play. I never thought I'd like…

— Brian Skrudland

It's more fun to be playing hockey than doing anything else.

— Connor McDavid

I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.

— Gary Bettman