Danger Zone Quotes

“Everybody knows you don’t hit from behind. It’s the number-one rule in hockey. We even have stop signs sewn on the back of our jerseys to remind us. More kids have gotten hurt being checked from behind than anything else in hockey.”
― Michele Martin Bossley, Danger Zone

“I never thought I’d want a girl on the team, but Amanda was pretty good, actually. I’d never tell her that, but she is. She’s fast with the glove and really flexible. She can practically hang a split in front of the goal and no puck can get under pads that are locked to the ice. She’d be okay looking too if she ever took that goalie mask off so you could see her face.

She has brown hair that she always ties back and green eyes, but she has about $5,000 worth of metal in her mouth. Yeah, braces; it’s a good thing we have to wear full face masks. I bet Amanda’s parents would flip out if she busted a tooth.”
― Michele Martin Bossley, Danger Zone

“I glanced over at Zach. He didn’t look thrilled to work with me, either. I guess I can’t blame him. I used to give him a pretty rough time. That was before I got sent to this special class because I was always picking on other kids. I had to go there for a month or so before they’d let me come back to school. It was just like regular school, except every day I had to talk to a bunch of people about being angry and junk like that. I wasn’t angry.

When people ticked me off, I let them know. And if they wanted to cough up lunch money instead of telling me where to get off, who was I to complain? Yeah, so I was a jerk. Tell me something I don’t know.”
― Michele Martin Bossley, Danger Zone

“I like playing defense, but sometimes I think it might be fun to score the goals. It would be nice to be the good guy for a change.”
― Michele Martin Bossley, Danger Zone

“See, I’m pretty big for a guy in PeeWee. I’m thirteen. If the new age categories had come down this year, I’d already be in Bantam. Even then, I’d still be one of the bigger guys. Parents on the other team don’t like me much because I’m always clobbering their kids. I’ve already had five complaints this season about how I’m too big and aggressive to play PeeWee and I should’ve been moved up. But I can’t help being bigger and my coach likes hard-hitting defense; he keeps telling me to go for it. Besides, I’m still the right age for PeeWee, no matter what those parents say.”
― Michele Martin Bossley, Danger Zone

“Hockey has too many rules if you ask me. If I didn’t love the game so much, I wouldn’t be here. They make you remember everything. Equipment, penalties, strategies, you name it. But I guess that’s partly why it’s so much fun; it’s not easy, you know? So you feel awesome when you do really great.”
― Michele Martin Bossley, Danger Zone