Gordie Howe: "American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity."
Steve Rushin: "By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series."
Brad Park: "We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital."
Herb Brooks, 1980 US Olympic hockey coach: "You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone."
Steve Smith: "Part of the learning curve in Edmonton is learning to hate Calgary."
Hockey:
A legal addiction that becomes a hockey player's life.
Hockey is a passion.
It releases you; setting you free to
grow, inspire, experience, and live.
It's an addiction, a high, a 60 minute orgasm.
An Example of Passion, Life, and Love;
Because there is nothing in the world that can compare
To getting up at 4:30 in the morning,
Your eyes still gritty,
The equipment wet from last night's game,
Your every muscle aching,
And stepping on to that cold, clear, fresh ice.
Theres Only One Dream For Candian Hockey Players
To Wear The Jersey Of Team Canada
To Play Infront Of Millions Cheering Your team Name.. Team Canada
To Take Part In History
To Help Canada To another Cup
Only Some May Experience This Dream
And Those Are The Lucky Ones
Everything happens for a reason.
Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck.
Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity
all occur to test the limits of your soul.
Without these small tests, if they be events, illnesses or relationships,
life would be like a smoothly paved, straight,
flat road to nowhere.