Quotes About Hockey In Canada

#1. If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!

Norm MacDonald

#3. I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

Ryan Reynolds

#4. Sources also confirm that there is no one left in Canada who can remember when hockey was a simple game, played for fun.

Roy MacGregor

#5. Your mom's not that bad," said Jim. "Are you trying to make me mad?" "Okay she is." "I knew it. You've never liked her." "What's the right answer?" "So you're just telling me what I want to hear?" Jim reached over and put a hand on his wifes. "I love you.

Tim Dorsey

#6. There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

Mark Messier

#7. When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky.

Joe Sakic

#8. Some anthems are great for sports. You've got the Russian national anthem ... 'O Canada,' how wonderful is that for hockey ... but I chose the Italian national song because at my first World Cup, I saw the Italians play four times, and they won all four times - they won the championship.

George Vecsey

#9. Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

Louis Dudek

#11. In Canada, for boys, your identity is built on hockey. It's your social position; it's everything. And I was the worst hockey player of Canada.

Denis Villeneuve

#12. With thought, all problems can be resolved.

Agatha Christie

#13. I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.

Adam Oates

#14. I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

#15. I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.

Matt Frewer

#16. Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.

George Vecsey

#17. Hockey is our big sport, and if you fight in hockey you get five minutes for it, that's it. So in Canada, everyone is fighting.

Jeremy Hotz

#18. The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

Gary Bettman

#19. Cournoyer has it on that wing. Here's a shot - Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here's another shot! Right in front - THEY SCORE!!! Henderson has scored for Canada!

Foster Hewitt

#20. My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.

Len Elmore

#21. Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.

Steve Nash

#22. Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!

Dustin Milligan

#23. The usual duty of the "intellectual" is to argue for complexity and to insist that phenomena in the world of ideas should not be sloganized or reduced to easily repeated formulae.

Christopher Hitchens

#24. Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it.

Tan Twan Eng

#25. I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.

Patrick Chan

#26. I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey.

Matthew Perry

#27. Canada is hockey.

Mike Weir

#28. Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

Pierre Trudeau

#29. It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.

Steve Yzerman

#30. It's difficult because usually when they cast things, the main characters are Caucasian in absolutely almost every situation.

Sandrine Holt

#31. Never mind what makes Canada's constitution so special. Probably something to do with hockey, or the inalienable right to poutine, or securing the blessings of Rick Moranis.

Kevin Bleyer

#32. Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.

Shawn Mendes

#33. When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky.

Joe Sakic

#34. Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.

Douglas Coupland

#35. Twitter, just every once in a while I put something out there basically to promote whatever I'm doing, but I don't see any of that as representing me or who I am or being a brand.

Tim Daly

#36. Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.

Baltasar Gracian