#hockey

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. ↗

— Angela Ruggiero

#different #grow #hockey #hockey player #i

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. ↗

— Angela Ruggiero

#about #being #better #committed #face

There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed. ↗

— Angela Ruggiero

#existed #hockey #i #knew #know

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ↗

— Junior Seau

#beast #becomes #him #hockey #hockey player

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#california #growing #growing up #hockey #knew

You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight. ↗

— Brett Hull

#even #fight #fighting #game #get

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#basketball #black #dressed #golf #hockey

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. ↗

— Gordie Howe

#bilingual #english #hockey #hockey players #key players

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #each #freshmen #give #golf

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#attitude #continue #derogatory #detroit #family