Jarome Iginla Quotes

When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level.

I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.

My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.

I played ice hockey obsessively for 14 years of my life.

My dad always wanted me to get into motocross like him, so I started doing it while I was really young.

My parents, they don't say to me you have to play hockey. They just see me and how I love what's going on on the ice, how I love this atmosphere.

Since I was 15 or 16 years old, my grandfather was my high school football coach and my life's been ball. Dinners we're talking about ball and college we're talking about ball.

I've always had coaching in my blood. My dad was a college coach at West Chester and Ursinus so I had a feeling all along that I would coach.

When I was younger, I actually stepped foot in a ring for the first time at 8 years old because of my dad.

My father and uncles all encouraged me to play football: every present I ever got would be boots, kit, or a new ball, and that was just how I liked it.

I've watched what coaches do for young people in our country.

I don't think my parents imagined I'd represent England when they first drove me to mini-rugby at Maidenhead. I was only five but mum lied about my age to get me out of the house.

I was in Toronto with my parents, and my dad took me to an outdoor hockey rink. I was 3 or 4, and I just remember everything about that day. For some reason, I thought, 'This is it. This is what I'm supposed to do.' And this is around the time that Gretzky came to L.A., so I immediately joined a hockey league.

Coaching for tackles? That's something you do with seven-year-olds, when you show them how to stand and when to make a block. It is one of the basics of the game. No Premier League manager needs to coach it.

My son William and my daughter Amy are both really into their hockey now and I can enjoy watching that.

I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.

I started playing full-equipment football when I was 6 years old. My mom actually got me started in it.

I have been an athlete for much of my life starting at the age of 4.

I had other coaches when I was younger but my father was there, following all my training. He has seen as much tennis as many coaches on tour.

My first club was FT Gern. I joined through my parents and friends. My father played for them and a friend from nursery school took me to training once. I was five at the time.

I come from a very sporty family.

I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.

I started playing soccer when I was 4 because my sister was doing it. It was my first organized sport, and my parents thought this was a great way to get coordinated and be part of a team. I had an array of options but eventually figured out soccer was best for me.

I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.