Mario Lemieux Quotes

I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and coming out all the time and seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.

Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.

I'd love to be coaching kids three or four years. You kidding me? That's what I used to do.

I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.

I started in Grade 2. I went with my aunt and her boyfriend to an arena, an outdoor rink which was a block away from my grandparents. My grandpa came from Oregon. He had coached his son, my uncle, in hockey, and he was happy to get me involved in it.

I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.

I love hockey, and I don't love it for any other reason than when I get out there and play, I enjoy it.

I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.

I'm not embarrassed about how we recruit, how we treat kids, and how we coach them.

We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.

I'm proud to have a small part in the growth of hockey in D.C., but our organization does so much every day to get young kids to play hockey and I'm always appreciative of that.

I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.

I want to work on players at school and college level. I will not open an academy but looking to work with the government and Hockey India.

Hockey is my life. I love every minute of it.

No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid.

Coaching is not something I'm passionate about. I'm passionate about coaching kids

People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

To work with the kids and help them come through from the Academy to the first team would be brilliant.

I've watched what coaches do for young people in our country.

I was in Toronto with my parents, and my dad took me to an outdoor hockey rink. I was 3 or 4, and I just remember everything about that day. For some reason, I thought, 'This is it. This is what I'm supposed to do.' And this is around the time that Gretzky came to L.A., so I immediately joined a hockey league.

Coaching for tackles? That's something you do with seven-year-olds, when you show them how to stand and when to make a block. It is one of the basics of the game. No Premier League manager needs to coach it.

I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.

The main thing for me is to consider sport at an equal level as you would consider mathematics or poetry at school. It's another place where you can send your kids; they can have fun, but you can expect them to have good teachers, and you can expect them to progress.

I want to coach my boys and coach those boys that are 15 to 18 years old.

I have been an athlete for much of my life starting at the age of 4.