Steve Rushin Quotes

You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.

Hockey's my favorite sport.

Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.

You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.

When I played, you had a lot of enforcers. You would go to the hole, get knocked down, and the referee would look at you and say, 'Get stronger, get up, and keep playing.'

Hockey is just a game.

I played hockey with the best of them.

Being an agitator gives me an opportunity to draw penalties against the other team. That's one part that brings emotion to my game.

Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.

I play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can.

I love to play hockey. I'm a huge hockey fan and I love to play as well.

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

Your best penalty killer is your goalie.

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

It doesn't matter whether I'm in an NHL arena, at a local rink, or on a sheet of ice in the middle of a baseball stadium: when I'm around the game, I feel at home.

Hockey's fun.

I just try to do my best to shoot the puck and we'll see what's going to happen with it.

Thank God there was no yellow card in basketball because I would get a red card every game.

If someone makes contact with you, it is a foul, and you are going to go down.

It's hard to score in this league when you don't get on the power play and don't play special teams.

Any time you give up two shorthanded goals, you're not usually going to win.

With handball, you have soft facts but not hard facts. The shot is wide, and then suddenly, it's a penalty.

In football, contact is normal, especially in England.

In England, the referee doesn't blow his whistle.