Hockey Training Quotes

Hockey is the only thing that I'm not good at that I love.

It's always tough when you're off the ice for a while when you've got to come back because you can't replicate the type of cardio that you need to play hockey and you can't really replicate skating at all. You can run as many stairs, or bike as many whatever on your spin bike as you want, but you can't replicate it at all.

If I weren't acting, I think I'd want to be a professional hockey player.

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

The skill set for hockey is so specific to skating and if you haven't been skating as a kid it's impossible to play - and I wasn't a skater.

Hockey is my life, you know. If I do not play hockey, I do not know what I do.

I think it's very important for the Chinese people, the Chinese government to build lots of hockey rinks, bring some coaches here and learn the game, and I think they will do well.

I don't just want to be a drag-flicker. I want to be become a complete hockey player.

It was a fun ride. I've enjoyed my time on the ice and I've enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey.

Every day, I do hockey-related stuff all morning.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

The coach put me in goal, and back then, we were playing on bone-hard ground: red ash; we even trained on black ash, which was worse. That's not easy for a goalkeeper. My mother was always taking out her sewing kit for the countless holes in my training pants. For a long time, I had to buy my own gear.

For me, my hockey career is all about the Devils.

The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.

When I was at the end of middle school and the beginning of high school, I fell in love with hockey in a serious way.

A competitive HIL can do wonders for India hockey. The tournament will promote young talents and give them the opportunity to play alongside and against some of the best in the business.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

It was either football or hockey. I chose football, and I think it's worked out OK so far.

I was a really good ice hockey player when I was a kid. Now in the aftermath I think I wasn't maybe big enough, and I couldn't have put on enough muscle to actually be able to play with the better guys, but I was a really good skater.

Goalies often react quickly to shots with no regard for what might happen to their body because we are trained to stop pucks first and ask questions later.

Hockey is a year-round job.

Tremendous respect to hockey players. It's not easy every day, going out and getting hit, especially the goalies with all that padding on, that small puck, trying to track it - hand-eye co-ordination is a must. They're some amazing athletes.

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

I'm so busy right now, it's the beginning of the hockey season for my kids.

I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'