#hockey

I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play. ↗

— Steve Nash

#cards #collect #games #go #hockey

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet. ↗

— Claudio Reyna

#baseball #basketball #culture #football #grow

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#city #detroit #hockey #i #knew

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles. ↗

— Mark Messier

#battles #game #got #hockey #i

But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it. ↗

— Daley Thompson

#football #go #hockey #kids #like

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble. ↗

— Bobby Orr

#corners #doing #god #growing #growing up

The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us. ↗

— Gary Bettman

#been #canada #canadian #franchises #hockey

It was a fun ride. I've enjoyed my time on the ice and I've enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey. ↗

— Ron Francis

#fun #game #getting #hockey #i

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#each #every #guy #helping #hockey

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach. ↗

— Wayne Gretzky

#did #everything #gifted #hockey #i