Joe Sakic Quotes

• You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations.

  Joe Sakic

• You know what’s good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don’t have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I’ve been the one skating.

  Joe Sakic

• You can’t play hockey with a bald spot, so I’m hanging up the skates.

  Joe Sakic

• When you think of Canada, you think of hockey and you think of Wayne Gretzky.

  Joe Sakic

• To play in the Olympics, to play for your country, there’s nothing like it. You love doing it and I’m looking forward to it again. We’re all looking forward to trying to win another gold.

  Joe Sakic

• To be honest, I don’t care how it went in.

  Joe Sakic

• The time of year I love the weather the most here is the fall, and I’ve never really gotten to experience the mountains and Denver in the fall because I was always playing and traveling.

  Joe Sakic

• The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I’ll be.

  Joe Sakic

• The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

  Joe Sakic

• Once you’re in the game and it’s a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you’re doing.

  Joe Sakic

• Obviously there are not too many people who get a chance to play in the Olympics in their hometown. That would be something special, but going into the summer you have to be realistic with yourself, and health-wise and motivation-wise you have to be willing to do what it takes.

  Joe Sakic

• My e-mail address is actually my wife’s e-mail address. I actually hate computers.

  Joe Sakic

• If you keep performing, and if you stay healthy, you keep playing.

  Joe Sakic

• I’m leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories.

  Joe Sakic

• I’m just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.

  Joe Sakic

• I didn’t know that I’d like it this much, coaching both boys and coming out all the time and seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.

  Joe Sakic

• I always said to myself that the minute I thought I’d slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it was time for me to go.

  Joe Sakic

• I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.

  Joe Sakic

• Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.

  Joe Sakic

• Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup.

  Joe Sakic

Joe Sakic (23)

Birth:	7th July, 1969
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Ice Hockey Player

About

Joseph Steven Sakic was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. He is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. He played his entire 21-year National Hockey League career with the Quebec Nordiques/Colorado Avalanche franchise. He led the Avalanche to Stanley Cup titles in 1996 and 2001, being named the most valuable player of the 1996 playoffs, and honored as the MVP of the NHL in 2001 by the hockey writers and his fellow players.

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