Ice Capades Quotes

“rise above and stand out from those who merely get by. Not hard work as in showing up to the same job on time for twenty-seven years, which is a fine thing and absolutely an achievement (if you can find an employer that will keep you for nearly three decades without outsourcing you). I mean the kind of hard work that leaves you alone at night while your college peers are doing keg stands and your grown-up friends are taking a well-earned breather. I mean the kind of hard work that most people just won’t do.”
― Sean Avery, Ice Capades: A Memoir of Fast Living and Tough Hockey

“Why do hockey players fight? Well, partly because you see the pros do it when you’re a kid and partly because sometimes you get hit so hard or a guy says something so foul that you just want to smack him. Your adrenaline is on overdrive and it unleashes its power through your fists.”
― Sean Avery, Ice Capades: A Memoir of Fast Living and Tough Hockey

“You don’t have to be a scout to spot the tough guy. A true tough guy has a kind of aura about him. Watch a bunch of dogs in the park. They all know which one not to mess with, even if he’s just trotting along with his tail in the air.”
― Sean Avery, Ice Capades: A Memoir of Fast Living and Tough Hockey

“I’m no different. If another player gets under my skin, I want to punch his face in. But if I’m chasing him around, trying to hurt him, I’m not doing my job. Better to get him chasing me and then he’s not doing his job. That makes me an agitator.”
― Sean Avery, Ice Capades: A Memoir of Fast Living and Tough Hockey

“The knock on me was that I was a “bad teammate.” Did this mean that I stole other players’ girlfriends? That I was an arrogant puck hog? That I put Tiger Balm in guys’ jockstraps and thought it was the funniest thing ever when they tried to extinguish the three-alarm burning up the family jewels?”
― Sean Avery, Ice Capades: A Memoir of Fast Living and Tough Hockey

“I’ve wanted this since I was five years old. I’m now twenty-one and time is running out. Of course, looking back, I realize I had lots of time, but in September 2001, all I knew was that playing the game I loved more than anything in the NHL was the only option. There was no Plan B.”
― Sean Avery, Ice Capades: A Memoir of Fast Living and Tough Hockey