Patrick Kane Quotes

When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.

When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.

It's interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. 'Did your Bond do that?' 'Yes mine did!' So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.

There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.

Our fans often tell us that they see themselves in us. The relationship between the guys in Broken Lizard rings a bell with them, because they have their own little friend groups, with their own complex dynamics, and their own private jokes.

My teammates are part of my family as well.

Some of my closest friends in life are guys that I was able to play high school football with.

It was the camaraderie and the friendships, too, that really drew me to Queensbridge.

I met Ronaldo in 1993 and from that moment we always shared the room. I've slept more times with Ronaldo than my wife.

There's something about playing in junior and being with your buddies all the time and going through that run, it's hard not to fall in love with it.

When training and matches are finished, we'll all go out and have food together; we're always in touch with each other.

I miss being in the locker room with all my buddies. That, to me, was so much fun.

I have got closer to some of the guys through Twitter. I don't need to name names but I have found I have more of a connection with some players than I did before - not to say that I wasn't friends with them anyway but just that I'm better friends with them now.

The things I talk about with childhood friends are inevitably different from the things I talk about with friends who are the same field as me.

I'm thankful for the relationship that I established with guys here in my time in Buffalo.

My favorite guy is Ben Schwartz. We've become really good friends.

My teammates, they kid me all the time. My nickname is the doctor or the president in the locker room.

A lot of guys came together quickly as a group, as more than just teammates, as friends. Your family get to know each other, and you become really close, and that's a big part of the team aspect is caring about your teammates off the field, getting to know their kids, their families, their wives.

We've always had each other's backs in and out of competition. We support each other the most because we're the only ones that know what it's like to go through what we do, and so we can't be more thankful for each other. We're like sisters.

If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again.

The group has always been based on friendship and a certain attitude.

You think about when you're with your friend, and you hang out with your friend. And then you go do whatever you're doing, your life. You know, and then you see your friend again. But for us, we were friends that, we would be together, and then we would go to work, which was us still again, so we were always together.

Being in Motley Crue really made me value friends and family.

As a young girl, football is where I met the people who, to this day, are my best friends. It is also where I began to learn about the important relationship between hard work, teamwork, and fun.

I think winning brings togetherness and, when you have beautiful experiences together and you win trophies, then those experiences stay within that group.