George Vecsey Quotes

Certain Stanley Cup traditions remain intact, including the handshake line between players who had been belting one another for a couple of weeks.

It was great to play with some of my old linemates.

It's a Stanley Cup thing. The boys mangle one another for a series, performing all kinds of nasty tricks, then they make nice, shaking soggy hands as the teams shuffle in opposite directions.

I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.

Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

I still get a great buzz from rugby.

I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

I have great memories of my years in Edmonton and the players who were my teammates.

I don't if I can handle not being on the sideline and being part of a team trying to win a football game on Friday nights.

In hockey, you get to meet a lot of different people and become friends with them. It is definitely a special sport. I love that part of it.

I really enjoyed playing rugby. I loved the camaraderie with the other athletes. It was kind of like fighting. Team fighting.

Playing on Saturdays, seeing 75,000 people yell your name, 88, ASJ, and all of that stuff is great.

If you don't like to be hit, you're in the wrong sport.

I know what it is to win and to lose, and the last thing you want when you've lost is to have a microphone stuck under your nose.

I love playing against my friend D-Rose.

The thing about hockey for me is I'm really competitive and I like to have fun.

Football is a game you're supposed to have fun in.

I miss training for football and I miss playing matches.

Many players enter the pitch just to change shirts, but I don't.

Whether you win or lose against English teams, you always feel it's been a proper contest.

It was fun winning with the Nasty Nine, but it didn't feel good going into every game with the Nasty Nine, I tell you that.

I've always been someone who said that football is a contact sport.

Without basketball, I'd have no idea what to do.

I've played a lot of cricket at Trent Bridge over the years, and have had a lot of fond memories there.