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When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the ...
PATRICK KANE
If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, p...
PATRICK KANE
We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience.
PATRICK KANE
I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about wha...
PATRICK KANE
Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and gettin...
PATRICK KANE
I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
PATRICK KANE
There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players.
PATRICK KANE
I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
PATRICK KANE
I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.
PATRICK KANE
I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That's not to say that I won't pass i...
PATRICK KANE
The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the othe...
PATRICK KANE
I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and h...
PATRICK KANE
Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not li...
PATRICK KANE
I love to score goals, and I love to plan my celebrations.
PATRICK KANE
I don't want to be satisfied with where I'm at or happy about what I've done. I want to ...
PATRICK KANE
Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you alway...
PATRICK KANE
Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
PATRICK KANE
My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans a...
PATRICK KANE
It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
PATRICK KANE
Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic ...
PATRICK GEDDES
Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant i...
PATRICK GEDDES
But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
PATRICK GEDDES
I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul...
PATRICK FUGIT
Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks d...
PATRICK FUGIT
There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of Am...
PATRICK FUGIT
If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're craz...
PATRICK FUGIT
It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like...
PATRICK FUGIT
The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: K...
PATRICK FUGIT
One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. B...
PATRICK FUGIT
I'm not a very fast-paced person.
PATRICK FUGIT
I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
PATRICK FUGIT