#hockey

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players. ↗

— Kristi Yamaguchi

#figure #hockey #hockey players #key players #perceptions

I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me. ↗

— Woody Harrelson

#biggest challenge #challenge #first #grown #had

People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far. ↗

— Marcel Dionne

#ask #best #career #cup #experience

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#ambition #clicked #first #first thing #five

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

I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#art #art form #dad #did #doing

I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey. ↗

— Mark Messier

#best #careers #guys #hockey #i

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career. ↗

— Mark Messier

#career #downside #end #even #hockey

There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there. ↗

— Mark Messier

#canada #cups #finals #hockey #long

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