Canadian Growth Chart

Hockey is a tough game. - Bobby Orr

In Canada, things are very honest. - Jim Pattison

I look at Canada like a second home. - Prince Andrew

Every day is a great day for hockey. - Mario Lemieux

Outdoor hockey is what it is all about. - Paul Coffey

Hockey is figure skating in a war zone. - Unknown

To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork. - Henry Samueli

Canada first, Canada last, Canada always. - Wilfrid Laurier

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players. - Kristi Yamaguchi

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. - Jack Layton

A Canadian is sort of like an American, but without the gun. - Unknown

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn. - Mordecai Richler

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical. - Wayne Gretzky

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey. - Jeff Garlin

If you call ham "Canadian bacon", what do you call bacon? - Michael Kelso

I've only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami. - Larry the Cable Guy

My wife likes the hockey smell because it's the smell of a warrior. - David Walton

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. - Sidney Altman

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself. - George Vecsey

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world. - Jaromir Jagr

I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for "Running off to Canada." - Jay Leno

When you think of hockey, when you think of Canada, you think of Wayne Gretzky. - Joe Sakic

When God created the world, he didn't draw a line between Canada and America. - Marianne Williamson

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity. - Marshall McLuhan

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA. - Brett Hull

I am on your Walk of Fame in Toronto. My sense of humour is Canadian. But I can't vote. - Donald Sutherland

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated. - Honor Blackman

We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. - Prince Philip

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life. - Steven Pinker

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada? - Sarah Vowell

Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records. - Unknown

I have great, fond memories of Canada. I feel that one day my bones will more than likely end up there. - Aden Young

We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust. - Steven Pinker

I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. - Andy Roddick

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick. - Sarah Palin

I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me. - Keanu Reeves

Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. - Mordecai Richler

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was. - Carol Alt

Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It's the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop. - Steve Yzerman