Hilary Knight Quotes

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

It's a big step to be drafted. Ultimately, it's everybody's dream. That's where you start thinking about making the team, maybe about winning the Stanley Cup.

It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

I was lucky enough to have a hockey career in the NHL.

Maybe playing in the NHL would be pretty nice, but that's more of a pipe dream for me.

I was always a decent hockey player, but I'd have never made the NHL.

If I weren't acting, I think I'd want to be a professional hockey player.

I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

As a kid growing up in the little city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, I dreamed of one day playing in the NHL, but never did I expect it to be as much fun as it turned out to be.

I'm in the NHL and I'll take whatever reputation I can to get here and to stay here.

I think it would be unbelievable to play in the NHL as an 18-year-old.

I remember starting hockey at age 7 and going to my first tryout and dreaming about how great it would be, and it's been even better. These 20 years in the NHL, it's been better.

For me, my hockey career is all about the Devils.

It's a dream come true to be part of an NHL team, to be a regular in the NHL, to live the life, to make the money and do all that stuff.

Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.

It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.

I was impressed all my life. Because of the Montreal Canadiens' past, it means a lot because it was a team I cherished as a kid. It was my dream playing for the Montreal Canadiens - it was my dad's team.

I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.

I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started, watching the Winnipeg Jets play as a young kid.

It's been a good hockey life for me anyway.

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'

As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.