Patrick Chan Quotes

L.A. will never be a hockey town. I'm a huge hockey fan, and people out here do not appreciate hockey as much as they should. I've always been into it. I'm Canadian; that's my sport for sure.

Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.

We have always been taught that hockey is our national game, but it is only in general knowledge books and not on official papers.

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

Boxing is a sport, but it's also entertainment. I wanted to transcend the sport and be considered just not as a fighter, or a champion, but someone very special.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

Canada is hockey.

Canadians know me so well - I am part of Canada's collective memory - and my fame would get people through the door who would not otherwise be interesting in talking about mental health.

Hockey is the dream of all Swedes. They get the girls.

I want to affect culture. I want to have my mark on everything. I give examples of people like Bill Cosby, Quincy Jones - those are the people who I look up to. The game wouldn't be the same without them. What happens in the course of 5 years isn't really important to me. I care about what they'll say about me in 50 years.

Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.

If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're big in Canada. But if you're big in New York, you're big in the rest of the world.

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.

My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!

I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me.

He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!

Just because I'm doing 'Star Wars' doesn't mean that'll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street.

I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

Canadians are very proud of me, of my career.