Quotes About Field Hockey

#1. But it's the temptation of so many suburban-raised children to invent tales of adversity, to create hardscrabble mythologies out of life histories marked by little more than field hockey games and orthodontist appointments.

Meghan Daum

#2. Casual Italian loafers. One enterprising soul actually wore field-hockey shoes.

Barbara Bretton

#3. It's odd, that's why I don't like telling people I played field hockey. It's real big in Australia for guys. But I say I played in America, and everybody goes, 'Oh, you girl!'

Heath Ledger

#4. All our lives are enriched by the leadership and excellence and confidence of female athletes, whether the Mia Hamms and Maya Moores we know or the field hockey, lacrosse and track and field athletes we do not necessarily know.

George Vecsey

#5. I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

Julie Bowen

#6. Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

Emma Watson

#7. I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.

Emma Watson

#8. I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

Nicole Ari Parker

#9. Forty minutes later, my hatred for field hockey was in full bloom, courtesy of Nikki. Whoever thought it was a good idea to combine Tag with wooden golf clubs and a rodent-size ball should be beaten senseless.

K.R. Conway

#10. Mullahs have been making an issue of field hockey lately, because you have to run and bend. And

Geraldine Brooks

#11. hockey field at Red Maids' School. By the time Emma had explained why she crossed the Atlantic despite the risks involved, they were both staring at her as if she'd just landed from

Jeffrey Archer

#12. Sometimes to be a good parent ... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

Daniel Pearce

#13. My dad died from cancer when I was 18, and my mom was in a really tough spot. So I wanted to try to help at home. I had started doing some technology consulting.

Mike McCue

#14. While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

George Washington

#15. My nose remembers more than my eyes. The sharp oily smell of eucalyptus combines with afternoon dust from the hockey field. But my heart feels the different then and now.

Phyllis Theroux

#16. Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people's experiences as an interpretive lens.

Matt Chandler

#17. I think part of what people are responding to with Lambeau Field is that it's a solid culture. There's so much committed to what hockey means and that's how we feel about football. It's just a great connection between the culture of football and the culture of hockey.

Jon Jones

#18. I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.

Leander Paes

#19. It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

Joe Hockey

#20. Thank you for not growing to hate humans.

Yuki Midorikawa

#21. We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was in writing, art, on the hockey field or on the football field. It's something that makes you feel - 'I can do this stuff.'

Michael Morpurgo

#22. And when they were finally naked they moved

Michael Connelly

#23. The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track - and - field meet.

Gump Worsley

#24. I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

Wayne Gretzky