HILARY KNIGHT

Social media is huge. You can give people a behind-the-scenes look at your life.

I wear yoga pants and get to work out all the time - it's my job. I feel a little bit different when I go into what I call 'the real world.' It's cool to be able to train as a full-time job, and it's something that I love and will continue to try to make work for the next however-many years.

I'm able to be able to achieve certain things that others aren't - whether it's a reaction time or the idea of a coffee that's about to be spilled and I'm able to grab it before anyone else or whatever it is.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

Growing up on an all-boys' team wasn't the easiest thing. I'd have guys come after me on the ice and just hit me because I'm a girl. I'd have parents heckling me from the stands, other parents not wanting me on the team, not making certain teams just because I was a girl.

I know there are sort of misnomers that women's hockey isn't as physical or fast as the guys, but women's hockey is very dynamic and tactful in its own ways. It's just as respectable of a sport as any male counterpart.

How do we make hockey more affordable? How do we get it into more households? How do we keep it part of the conversation? Those are things that will help us not only increase registration numbers from a grassroots level but also deepen the player pool from the senior national team and the elite level.

Whatever I do, I want to impact people's lives in a positive way.

Now I can give back and be a role model and an advocate for women in sport.

When I was 5, I'm like,' I'm doing this,' whether there's women's ice hockey, men's ice hockey, whatever it was in my future.

I try to get a well-balanced diet with a mix of greens, protein, and carbs.

I'm trying to change up the pace in which I approach life so I'm not always go, go, go.

You have to lose to win a silver medal, so that's always the tough thing to wrap your head around.

I have to eat a lot more in the summer because I'm burning more calories.

Girls are breaking barriers and boundaries every day in everything from sports and science to business and the creative arts.

I am extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to play hockey, especially when there weren't equal opportunities as there are now. But at times, it was challenging.

Strong is beautiful. I want to shatter that stereotype that strong isn't beautiful, because it absolutely is.

'Playing like a girl' was used as a demeaning term instead of an empowering one. I am proud to be a girl and rocking the ice.

I believe in lifestyle changes to accommodate a healthy living.

I like going on adventures or excursions.

The most valuable advice I can give is plan for your success. Write down your ideal goal, creating checkpoints for yourself along the way that align with the end goal. Set up rewards for achieving both little victories and big ones.

I think the biggest thing is people forget that we're these crazy athletes with these athlete bodies and stuff, but it's just important to feed the other side of it, and if there's a piece of cake there, have the piece of cake. You earned it. You only live once.

I remember coming out of college thinking, 'OK, I'm gonna get an agent, and I'm gonna make money. I'm gonna make millions of dollars.' And that never happened.

Fortunately, I have some amazing partners that I work with that continue to support me and enable me to unleash the best me!

I went to a lot of Chicago Wolves games when I was growing up... They would come out of the tunnel, the pyramid would be there, and the fire would come out of the pyramid. I thought it was the coolest thing.