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Hockey is a fast, body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.

Hockey is its own game. It's completely different than all the other games, although it's getting way too close to soccer.

Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.

Hockey is not a sport - it's a disease.

Hockey is still my favourite sport. I think that might be part of what makes me successful. I don't live or die by racquetball, so I can detach from it when needed. I'm all about all sports.

Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.

Hockey taught me to challenge myself and be the best I can be on and off the ice.

Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

Hockey,' mused Marcus. 'The sport of kings.

Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.

Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that's going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don't take that out of our game at the pro level.

Hockey is the only place where a guy can go nowadays and watch two white guys fight.

Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.

Hockey is my life and money is money. If you think about money, you stop playing hockey.

Hockey is probably one of the most expensive sports. You have to have a place to play. You have to have the proper equipment. You have to have the transportation to get there.

Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.

Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.

Hockey's my favorite sport.

Hockey was such a part of my life, as well as my family’s, that I knew we were all going to miss it.  For the first few weeks my son was in tears sobbing, ‘I miss you being a Red Wing daddy.’  I didn’t know what to say so we just cried together.  Nobody prepares you for that kind of stuff.

Hopefully I can be a good light in the hockey world and promote faith as something that's really real.

How's the game changed in my 15 years in the league? Well, we used to be called hard-working players. Now we're overpaid crybabies.

How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?

How would you like a job where, if you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.

Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

I am 10 times smarter than everyone else in this game. Beyond a shadow of a doubt.

I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

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 first you don't know what it's all about, but you have that dream and you always work hard toward it. The older you get, the more you start dedicating yourself to the game.

I am not afraid to stop the puck with my head. I try to do it sometimes even in practice; not everyday but once in a while, I say to my teammates, shoot me in my head and I'll try to stop the puck. I am not afraid at all of the puck, so sometimes, if the shot comes at my head, it's an easier save to make with your head. Maybe the people think a different way, but for me, I do it with my head.

I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey

I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's room, to give the scene texture, and we tried a field hockey stick. It looked really good to me, until someone had to say that in America, field hockey is more of a girl's game. Gradually I got tuned into the world - that happens on every movie.

I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.

I am who I am. Life is too beautiful to be sad, to be depressed. The sun comes up every day and it's beautiful.

I believe Bobby Orr had the greatest impact of any player to come along in my lifetime. He earned his place in hockey history by single handedly changing the game from the style played in my day. In my mind there can be no greater legacy.

I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.

I can't hear what Jeremy says because my ears are blocked with my two Stanley Cup Rings.

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.

I can't wait for the crowd, the noise, the energy in the building. I can't wait to take that all away from them.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

I do feel the weight of being the steward of the greatest sport the world ever came up with. I grew up with a love and admiration for it, so I feel an obligation to portray it as electric and terrifying and exciting and beautiful, and all these sometimes contradicting things that make hockey what it is.

I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.

I'd be lying to you if I said guys weren't afraid of him. I'm afraid of him, afraid of him running in to me.

I Didn't Drop My Gloves. They Were Pulled Off Me!

I do hang out with girls, I do relax. But I am a hermit sometimes and get a bit too introverted, too 'Jean-Paul Sartre' and intellectual in my head. And it's like a Kafka novel in there, things get nuts. Then I have to remind myself to get out and I will go and play ice hockey with my friends.

I don't care what people say about me and what they think about me. I care about my team and I care about myself. Lots of people watch hockey, and I think everybody has different thinking.