Jimmy Cannon Quotes

Hockey is a tough game.

Hockey is a tough, physical game, and it always should be.

Every day is a great day for hockey.

Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.

I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.

Canada is hockey.

Hockey is the original extreme sport.

I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.

It's the most violent sport there is.

I feel hockey is a tough game.

Dehumanizing sounds so extreme, but when you're fighting for a football at the bottom of the pile, it is kind of dehumanizing.

I am not a big fan of hockey.

My two earliest memories - earning little buttons on our skates when we learned how to skate from one end of the ice to the other and when I first lifted the puck.

Tremendous respect to hockey players. It's not easy every day, going out and getting hit, especially the goalies with all that padding on, that small puck, trying to track it - hand-eye co-ordination is a must. They're some amazing athletes.

Hockey fascinates me more than anything else in life.

The NHL is the best in the world, it has the best players. I love the NHL.

I saw the older kids entering the rink carrying hockey sticks and bags, and I was fascinated by the equipment. Once I started skating faster, I was attracted to the speed and dynamics of hockey. I never looked back!

I love hockey. Hockey is my go-to sport. It's my jam.

My experience over my five years at Wisconsin and my one year in the NFL was that there were times where I couldn't play the game safely. There are positive measures we can take... but on a lead play, on a power play, there's violence.

I can't be a nice man on the field. I try to laugh, but whenever I start laughing or be jovial, I get smashed.

I like to play physical, and I'm a big guy, and I think sometimes - maybe sometimes I am pushing somebody, and I don't realize how hard I'm pushing them. And then they do it back, and it's kind of like, 'Jeez!'

It is okay to play tough and try to hit guys hard in the course of the play - that's fine - but I don't like unnecessary roughness or things that happen after the play.

Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.