Steve Yzerman Quotes

I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

I've seen 48 Stanley Cups in my life. I was about six or seven when I started going to games with my dad.

The Montreal Canadiens have been a big part of my family.

When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was.

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.

Canada is hockey.

I am so fascinated and taken by the Golden Knights.

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

I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.

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.

My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I remember the first game I got to see him play against the Jets. The Kings beat the Jets, and I was happy that they did. Gretzky left the game after the first period, and I was upset about that.

I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

I know hockey is growing in the U.S., and it's becoming more popular, but anything to get the game out there and see how we view it. We view it as the best game in the world.

Halifax is a big hockey city. Everyone loves the game here and really enjoys anyone who has had success.

I didn't know any hockey fans in Dallas.

Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?

I don't care how any other Canadian team does, other than the Edmonton Oilers.

I grew up in a city just outside of Edmonton, St. Albert. So I watched NHL games with my grandpa. I watched a lot of games, back then it was called the Smythe Division, and it was just Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Winnipeg.

One of the advantages, one of the special things, about playing in Detroit or Montreal is guys like Gordie Howe walk in the room. I didn't know he was here tonight, it was kind of a coincidence to get that assist on a night that he's here.

I covered hockey for a few years in the late '90s and early 2000s for the 'Colorado Springs Gazette,' and I covered the Avalanche for some of the glory years. I've done hockey off and on as a sportswriter but never played it.

Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

The future of Canada, I believe, depends very largely upon the cultivation of a national spirit

The coming of age of Canadian culture may not depend on our ability to protect it at home, but to project it on the world’s stage.