Patrick Kane Quotes

I'll always welcome some extra shifts and some extra ice time, and it's my job to be as prepared as possible to play those minutes.

I'd like to play in every game, like everybody else.

It's not ideal for me to miss any time. I love the game. I want to be out there. I can't stand sitting the back watching games. I want to be out there fighting with my team.

Sometimes when you start playing games you don't get as many practices and you don't get as many touches. People think you have the puck the whole time during a game - you really don't.

I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.

I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.

I have figured out it's not what you do on the field, it's how many games you play in.

Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.

Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.

I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

I've always been a very harsh judge of talent because if you don't play the game on both ends of the court, and if you don't play hard every night, I'm probably not going to be in love with you as a player. I'm going to respect you because you're good, but these players are unique.

I told them that I cannot lie when a writer asks me what's my feeling not doing the game. I said I have to be honest. And my honest reply to you is, obviously, I'm a loyal team player. I will go where my bosses tell me to go.

Unless you're being carted off, you should be on the field.

Hockey is my passion, and I cannot live without it.

All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.

I need to be coming off the pitch every game with my voice gone, and that's something I can bring. I am just someone who likes to organise, make sure everything is well organised, because that makes it a lot easier for yourself too.

If you love this game, you always want to be out there, not in the sideline dressed in the street clothes. Especially when you know you can help the team.

That's what you need to win a Cup and go far in the playoffs, you need every guy to be accountable in all areas of the ice.

Obviously, every player wants to keep their spot in the starting line-up, and I'm the same.

It's life, it's hockey. You just can't worry about it.

David Luiz has to work with the others if he deserves to play; otherwise, he will stay on the bench or in the stands.

I think I have a lot more respect for someone who will be bold enough to say, 'I'm the leader of the hockey team, we're going to go there and give our best game and we're going to win the hockey game.'

I actually prefer teammates that have emotions. It means you care, compared to a guy that's kind of just nonchalant and goes about it like it doesn't matter. So I want guys that care. I want guys that show they care.