Hilary Knight Quotes

I really wanted to play hockey. My mom thought figure skates looked easier to use, so she put me in the learn-to-skate program.

Hockey is my favorite because I'm from Michigan. I used to figure-skate and root for the Red Wings.

Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

I'm most comfortable definitely when I'm on the ice. I love to play. It's something that I just love to do.

I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates.

I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.

I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.

I started skating when I was six years old.

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.

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

I really did love hockey. It was one of my favorite things to do.

I started skating when I was five years old in Pasadena, California.

Even in Canada, I never even played ice hockey. I never skated in my life; I always did rollerblade street hockey.

I played hockey with the best of them.

I always wanted to play ice hockey back in Australia, I'm not sure why, but we didn't have any ice where I lived. It was very hot - a coastal town.

Hockey is a tough game.

I'm awful at hockey.

Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.

I am a huge hockey fan.

I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.

No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.

I am an arena creature - by birth, I think. Most of my life has been spent as a rink rat.

Canada is hockey.

Outdoor hockey is what it is all about.