Getting in the Game Quotes

“It’s hard on Mom, though, a nurse’s aid at a nursing home, taking care of old people all day and then coming home to Gramps, who lately has been having trouble remembering our names.”
― Dawn FitzGerald, Getting in the Game

“Now I’ll deal with Derek on the ice and Valerie off. At least in the rink, I carry a stick and have pads and a helmet for protection. I’m pretty sure that Valerie’s attacks will make me look forward to Derek’s cheap shots against the boards.”
― Dawn FitzGerald, Getting in the Game

“Maybe it’s the taste of blood in my mouth or how angry I am at Derek, but I turn to Ben, slapping my stick on the ice. “Screw him,” I say. “I’m making this team.”
― Dawn FitzGerald, Getting in the Game

“I’d rather kiss Derek’s padded butt than leave the ice right now with everyone thinking it’s too rough out here for a seventh-grade girl.”
― Dawn FitzGerald, Getting in the Game

“I don’t care that I’m the only girl out here or the smallest player. I don’t care that some people think I shouldn’t be here, but I do care that the drills have stopped and my potential teammates are staring at me now like I’m roadkill.”
― Dawn FitzGerald, Getting in the Game

“A girl named Brittany or Ashley would have fallen in love with the spandex costumes and the white skates of a figure skater, but when your name is Joanna and everyone calls you Jo, you grow up in Cleveland watching your older brother play hockey in the shadows of the steel mills and dream of the day when you can wear a jersey and carry a stick, waiting for your chance to slap that puck home.”
― Dawn FitzGerald, Getting in the Game