Anyone Quote by Jonathan Toews

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

— Mario Lemieux

I always wanted to play professional hockey. Every hockey player's dream, no matter at what level or what age, is to play professionally. At…

— Ed Belfour

I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.

— Jason Priestley

Growing up, your whole goal and dream is to make the NHL. Once you get there, you kind of have to expand your goals…

— Brad Marchand

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually…

— Denis Leary

As a kid growing up in Montreal, I wanted to become either a hockey player or a wrestler. Since my family didn't have a…

— Sami Zayn

Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved…

— Wayne Gretzky

Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a…

— Bobby Orr

You can't wish that you were a normal kid if your dream is to play in the NHL. You've got to do whatever you…

— Auston Matthews

But once I left home to play hockey, it was a commitment to be the best I could be and try to make the…

— Jarome Iginla

A huge part of my passion for the sport comes from being Canadian and growing up watching Hockey Night in Canada on CBC with…

— P. K. Subban

Growing up, I played hockey because I loved playing it. I didn't view myself in minor hockey as a Black hockey player, but I…

— Jarome Iginla