Top 20 Chris Pronger Quotes

Everybody that has ever played a professional sport would like to go out on their terms and very few get to.

Look, I think playing the way I played, and knowing the game the way I know it, I think I’m going to have a better idea as to what the mindset of each player was.

Growing up, I ate, slept and breathed hockey. I got home from school, I shot pucks, played outdoor hockey, road hockey, go home for dinner… Remember this is pre-Internet, barely any video games, I had a Commodore Vic-20. If you weren’t doing your homework, you were outside playing hockey, most likely.

I don’t like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room. I try to keep the noise in front of me.

I had a set schedule since I was 15, since I started playing junior hockey. When you don’t have that sometimes you try to find something new and it’s difficult.

The best things in life aren’t easy. My career kind of sums that up. From the start of it to the end of it, there were a lot of twists and turns, a lot of different adversities. Having overcome those, it makes you stronger.

As social media grew and people learned of our travels, my wife would get requests from friends for suggestions about their travels. So she would help them connect with the right people and set up the right trip.

If I knew the secret to consistency, I’d be consistent.

I get up, I have breakfast, go work out, go to my eye appointment, come home, relax for a couple hours, and then go get my kids from school and start carpooling them around to their different activities and things they do.

Everybody wants to go out like a John Elway, where he wins two Super Bowls and is able to retire on his own terms.

I have nothing bad to say against the city of Edmonton. I liked it there. I had a fun year playing. It’s something I’ll remember for the rest of my life.

And as you really dig deep and start talking to families about their goals, dreams and bucket list trips, you really get to know someone, which allows us to mentor them… and they start feeling comfortable with you.

Obviously, I played two years in Hartford and I have a lot of fond memories.

My cognitive skills are a little suspect at times. It comes and goes on certain days. I can be sitting here and you might say what’s wrong with him, and I’ll figure out what I was saying and start going again.

Sometimes, I actually feel good when I get a penalty, because I get to rest for two minutes – hopefully just two minutes.

You miss the routine. That’s the biggest thing. That’s probably the biggest thing that put me into a hole, that you don’t have a routine, you don’t get up and work out and then eat and then go to the rink and practice an all those things in a set schedule.

When my wife was six years old, her father was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer and was given a 10% chance to live. He wanted to travel the world with his family while he could, so on these trips she got to see her father be excited to be with the family.

I get to play behind Al MacInnis and learn from him. I get to play with Brett Hull. There were like six or seven Hall of Famers that I would play with during my time in St. Louis. I mean, Wayne Gretzky was traded there my first year.

I’m from the middle of nowhere. I had to drive four hours just to find a city. It’s a different upbringing. It was perfect for me. I love the small-town feel, where you know everybody.

Unless you’re dying, it’s ingrained in our culture to play. Pain doesn’t hurt; it’s just pain.