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“Winning that gold medal at the Olympics is something I'll never forget.”
“Competing is very, very important me.”
“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.”
“I started playing for the Flames at 19 but even in minor hockey I remember traveling to Calgary for tournaments, from St. Albert, and I imagined playing in the Saddledome.”
“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.”
“Where I grew up, hockey was the sport that 90 per cent of black kids at school played.”
“It's an amazing honor to be the fourth Black hockey player to go into the Hall of Fame. It's a huge thrill.”
“When I was younger, to be honest, watching Bo Jackson, I dreamed of playing both sports. But as I got older, the opportunities were much better in hockey than baseball.”
“At times during hockey, I know myself, you get so wrapped up in it, you squeeze your stick a little too much, all those things, or you're too focused.”
“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.”
“For whatever reason I love big-city skylines. I've always been fascinated by them.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“As players you are always trying to do different things in the summer.”
“I started in Grade 2. I went with my aunt and her boyfriend to an arena, an outdoor rink which was a block away from my grandparents. My grandpa came from Oregon. He had coached his son, my uncle, in hockey, and he was happy to get me involved in it.”
“I always wanted to be like Mark Messier and I loved Wayne Gretzky, the same as other kids. But it was also really special for me to see the Black players that were in the NHL.”
“Music was a big part of my upbringing. My mum and my grandma are very passionate about music.”
“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.”
“I played on a line with Theo Fleury and German Titov, and I was actually center on their line.”