The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time. - Jeffrey Eugenides The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts...nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win. - Maureen Johnson I'm so busy right now, it's the beginning of the hockey season for my kids. - Curtis Joseph The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it. - Michael E Mann

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey. - Steven Chu For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey. - Barbara Mandrell I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points. - Andy Rooney

Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford. - Jamie Farr All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. - Gordie Howe Sometimes guys need to cry. Some hockey players think they're too tough to cry. - Brett Hull Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players. - Kristi Yamaguchi I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players. - Ted Lindsay Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players. - Rob Sheffield

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them. - Julie Bowen 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 I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and "transformed" her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better? - Jess C Scott

I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling. - Sidney Crosby Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA. - Brett Hull