I always wanted to be known as the girl who was good at hockey rather than the girl you see in magazines.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.
For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.
If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.
I wanted to be a hockey player. Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used. I was terrible in school and actually said, 'I'm going to be a hockey player.'
I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started, watching the Winnipeg Jets play as a young kid.
I was always a decent hockey player, but I'd have never made the NHL.
I always wanted to be a professional athlete, it just took me a while to realise it would be in racing. I played field hockey competitively for Ontario since I was 13, 14. Then I tried for the national side and made it. But it was so competitive. The girls were just so big and strong. I was getting crushed.
When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
No, I grew up admiring people who played ice hockey.
There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.