Joe Sakic Quotes

Hockey's my favorite sport.

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.

Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.

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

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.

It's more fun to be playing hockey than doing anything else.

Hockey is just a game.

I played hockey with the best of them.

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.

I actually played hockey my whole life, all the way up until ninth grade.

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

When you play hockey, you don't have any fear. As soon as you step on the ice everything goes away and you're focusing on the puck and focusing on the play.

I saw the older kids entering the rink carrying hockey sticks and bags, and I was fascinated by the equipment. Once I started skating faster, I was attracted to the speed and dynamics of hockey. I never looked back!

My two earliest memories - earning little buttons on our skates when we learned how to skate from one end of the ice to the other and when I first lifted the puck.

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

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

I've been playing hockey since I was five years old. It's a part of my life.

I'm a big hockey fan.

I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.

Hockey's fun.

Hockey is my passion, and I cannot live without it.

I love skating. It's part of my life, and I never wanted to give it up.

The weight of the world on my shoulders was something that I had to let go.

I feel hockey is a tough game.