You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.
I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
When it comes down to competition, it's not always about the best skater, it's about who skates the best in that competition.
He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.
Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.
Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.
I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.
I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.
I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.