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I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

I like other sports, too, including skiing and swimming, and I am learning to play ice hockey now. But judo is definitely part of my life, a very big part, and I am glad that judo was the first sport I took up and that I have practiced it regularly and seriously. I am also grateful to Japan for this.

I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

I'll keep battling for that No. 1 spot.

I'll still run him on the ice tomorrow.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

I look at it as a challenge, ... I'm not going to put too much added pressure on myself. I want to play in the NHL, and after that [happens], I can worry about things beyond that.

I loved curling and I loved the social aspect of it, the team. It's like if you had the same golf foursome for a long time, or if you're a bridge player, or a beer-league hockey team. You start to look forward to that time together and camaraderie, and having something that you do just for yourself.

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

I love to play for Pittsburgh. If they can't afford me, then I'd love to play in L.A. or New York.

I love to play hockey. I'm a huge hockey fan and I love to play as well.

I'm always working out; I did ice hockey in high school, but I'm not a dance person. I mean, this was horrible, but I had a dance double in my high-school musical.

I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

I'm gonna catch you with your head down tonight. I'm gonna take it off.

I'm hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick.

I'm just glad it wasn't Machete Night.

I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories...

I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.

I'm obsessed with hockey and my son's a big player. I spend a lot of time driving to the ice rink and I'm a huge Los Angeles Kings fan. So, yeah, I'm a hockey mama - a cool hockey mama.

I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.

I'm process-orientated, and people say that about the details. But I love the players. My No. 1 job is to make them better men. My No. 2 job is to make them better at hockey, and I never confuse that. The best people I've ever been around in my life never let me get away with anything - ever. You can have all the details in the world, but if you can't communicate with people and find a way to help them help themselves, you have no chance in this league. To me, that's what the profession is about: getting guys to believe in themselves and each other.

I'm probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don't worry about it.

In a way, by being fully committed to the Olympic movement globally, I'm better able to promote women's hockey and talk about women's hockey and put a face to women's hockey, to all the IOC members.

In biblical times, I stoned people to death. Now they are repaying me by hurling pucks at my head.

I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.

[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.

In the playoffs will beats skill.

In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study.

I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

I played my age. Not bad.

I play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can.

I remember my first year, I hit him with three good punches and couldn't believe he was still standing. He hit me with one and cracked my helmet. My head hurt for a week.

I say no words... I can't speak with him. I shy. He too good.

I see you finally got a number to match your IQ.

I slept like a baby. Every two hours, I woke up and cried.

I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations.

I started as a fourth-line fighter, went to being a third-line centre, then a second-line winger and a first-line centre. I've played every role there is, and the only thing that matters is helping the team win.

Is that a beard, or is Niedermayer eating a muskrat?

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

It doesn't matter how many times you get knocked down. The only thing that matters is how many times you get up.

I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling.

I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks - Brendan Shanahan on trying to score against Curtis Joseph. I'm hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick.

I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks

I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.