Top 30 Jarome Iginla Quotes

In hockey, you get to meet a lot of different people and become friends with them. It is definitely a special sport. I love that part of it.

It’s an amazing honor to be the fourth Black hockey player to go into the Hall of Fame. It’s a huge thrill.

There was definitely no time in grades 11 and 12 to do any other sports. That was one downside; I really enjoyed playing other sports.

As players you are always trying to do different things in the summer.

Where I grew up, hockey was the sport that 90 per cent of black kids at school played.

I would like to be in the playoffs. I would hope that there is some opportunity to go and play in the playoffs. Those are the best games, the most fun for sure, and you have a chance to win.

I was a big fan of Grant Fuhr. I was a big Oilers fan growing up. I started out playing goal, but there wasn’t enough action. So I decided to play out, and I’m thankful, ’cause goalie is a tough position.

Competing is very, very important me.

Any racism towards anybody, it’s not acceptable.

I’ve been fortunate enough to have a lot of neat experiences, Olympics and everything, getting to the Stanley Cup Finals was really cool, but to actually make the NHL was just something I don’t think I or my family will ever forget.

For whatever reason I love big-city skylines. I’ve always been fascinated by them.

I have a favorite line that I ever got to play with, and that would be at the World Cup. I got to play with Mario Lemieux and Joe Sakic. I got to be the right winger on their line.

Growing up, I played hockey because I loved playing it. I didn’t view myself in minor hockey as a Black hockey player, but I was also aware that I was.

I grew up here in St. Albert, which is a city just north of Edmonton, and I went to Grade 10 here at Paul Kane High School. But then I went to junior in the WHL, Western Hockey League, at age 16. So I left and went to finish school at Norkam High School in Kamloops for grades 11 and 12.

I haven’t been to Nigeria, but my dad and I have talked about going. I have a grandma over there who’s been here.

I’ve always dreamt of being on a Stanley Cup-winning team. That always stayed with me.

Sometimes you get into fights if a teammate is getting taken advantage of, sometimes just from competing and you feel someone takes a cheap shot. It’s just the intensity. It’s an intense game, sometimes you just get too fired up and fights happen.

To see Grant Fuhr starring, to see Claude Vilgrain and Tony McKegney, it was very important for me to see to follow my dream.

I want to be shooter, be competitive, go to the net, so it has changed, but it hasn’t changed that much. It’s more skating than it used to be for sure.

My mom’s actually a Buddhist. My dad’s a Christian and he was a Muslim, but he converted to Christianity.

Music was a big part of my upbringing. My mum and my grandma are very passionate about music.

We all have different styles, so it’s part of the game trying to be competitive and compete and be determined.

As a player, I do love playing Edmonton and Vancouver, those guys, with the intensity.

But once I left home to play hockey, it was a commitment to be the best I could be and try to make the NHL.

A legacy, or things like that, I’ve never really been a big thinker in that way. You know, it’s kind of just been trying to go each day.

Just like Grant Fuhr and Tony McKegney showed me it was possible to do what I’m doing, I want to be someone who shows kids that it’s possible to be whatever they want to be.

I believe in God, stay close, and pray daily. I have to pray, believe, and do the work. Once I go on the ice, I do the best I can and I leave it. If the goalie saves my first shot, my next shot’s going in.

I’d love to be a role model for black kids, whether they play hockey or not.

I mean, sometimes if you’re not always going to win on the scoreboard, you want to make sure that you’re there physically.

I was a better hockey player than I was a baseball player.