I’m a ‘blue sky thinker’ and dream big.
Hilary Knight
The most valuable advice I can give is plan for your success. Write down your ideal goal, creating checkpoints for yourself along the way that align with the end goal. Set up rewards for achieving both little victories and big ones.
Hilary Knight
‘Playing like a girl’ was used as a demeaning term instead of an empowering one. I am proud to be a girl and rocking the ice.
Hilary Knight
How do we make hockey more affordable? How do we get it into more households? How do we keep it part of the conversation? Those are things that will help us not only increase registration numbers from a grassroots level but also deepen the player pool from the senior national team and the elite level.
Hilary Knight
People don’t know how fantastic women’s ice hockey is. People don’t know how fantastic hockey is in general.
Hilary Knight
Now I can give back and be a role model and an advocate for women in sport.
Hilary Knight
I love going to the movies, whitewater rafting in the summer when I am home in Idaho, biking in the summer in Idaho, paddle boarding in the summer.
Hilary Knight
My dad was traveling a lot, but when he would come home and cook, he’d cook pizza.
Hilary Knight
Each person on a team has a responsibility and a role, and knowing the value of each individual and what they bring to the table is something very special and unique.
Hilary Knight
It was somewhere in Ohio – Cedar Point or something like that – one of those thrill rides. A few cars up, someone’s sunglasses had fallen off, and we were on one of those corkscrew parts, and I saw sunglasses and just instinctively grabbed them right out of the air. I was like, ‘Oh, my reaction time is really good. This is going well.’
Hilary Knight
When I graduated from the University of Wisconsin, I was highly encouraged to move to Boston to train as a hopeful for the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games. I remember packing up my car, traveling out here to live with other teammates and share an apartment.
Hilary Knight
I like going on adventures or excursions.
Hilary Knight
Social media is huge. You can give people a behind-the-scenes look at your life.
Hilary Knight
Being surrounded by great women and amazing role models and good teammates allowed me to unfold and evolve into the person that I am today.
Hilary Knight
The real answers aren’t in textbooks; they can be found through experiences.
Hilary Knight
I believe in lifestyle changes to accommodate a healthy living.
Hilary Knight
I golf for my own entertainment and my teammates’ entertainment.
Hilary Knight
For lunch, I usually have a burrito or burrito-style bowl with rice, beans, a little cheese, avocado, and tomato.
Hilary Knight
I absolutely have loved my career path and everything that I’ve done personally, but it was tough.
Hilary Knight
Women in general, we tend to shrink ourselves and not have as much confidence as we should in presenting ourselves and our body types. It’s OK to be fit and healthy and comfortable within your body, whatever frame you have.
Hilary Knight
Whenever you go into a game, you want to win, and you want to come out victorious in any way.
Hilary Knight
My two earliest memories – earning little buttons on our skates when we learned how to skate from one end of the ice to the other and when I first lifted the puck.
Hilary Knight
Equality should be a thing we don’t even have to talk about anymore.
Hilary Knight
I would like to go back to school, potentially.
Hilary Knight
The cool thing about a start-up – this is sort of the entrepreneur side of me – is that you can make it grow as much as you can. Or you can squander the talent as much as you want. But it’s up to you.
Hilary Knight
It’s a great culture to be a part of: there are hockey players all over the world. It has taken me to an education, getting an education at Wisconsin. I’ve been able to travel the world.
Hilary Knight
I know there are sort of misnomers that women’s hockey isn’t as physical or fast as the guys, but women’s hockey is very dynamic and tactful in its own ways. It’s just as respectable of a sport as any male counterpart.
Hilary Knight
It’s a great culture to be a part of: there are hockey players all over the world. It has taken me to an education, getting an education at Wisconsin. I’ve been able to travel the world.
Hilary Knight
Scoring two goals to win a game will hurt an opponent more than a punch in the face.
Hilary Knight
In my first two world championship experiences, I barely saw the ice at all.
Hilary Knight
You have to lose to win a silver medal, so that’s always the tough thing to wrap your head around.
Hilary Knight
I am the oldest in our family. I have three younger brothers. I needed to set a great example for them. It instilled a sense of competition in me and hunger to strive to be the best. There’s a lot of pride being the only girl and the oldest.
Hilary Knight
When our world is telling girls and women who they should be or what they should look like, it is critical that we empower those girls and young women to be confident with who they are.
Hilary Knight
The song ‘I Feel the Earth Move’ brings me back to those younger years when I was taking my first strides on the ice.
Hilary Knight
I went to a lot of Chicago Wolves games when I was growing up… They would come out of the tunnel, the pyramid would be there, and the fire would come out of the pyramid. I thought it was the coolest thing.
Hilary Knight
My favorite country that I have visited would have to be Sweden. I’m such a sucker for the Swedish culture, and I learned Swedish in college, so I like to try and navigate my way around.
Hilary Knight
I love cheeseburgers; I love fries, cheese curds, the list goes on.
Hilary Knight
Whenever you get Brianna Decker on the ice, and Emily Field and Amanda Pelkey, people are just going to go fast and push the pace.
Hilary Knight
Obviously, different people identify me as the face of women’s hockey and whatnot, but like my teammates, I’m just there to perform and compete.
Hilary Knight
Growing up on an all-boys’ team wasn’t the easiest thing. I’d have guys come after me on the ice and just hit me because I’m a girl. I’d have parents heckling me from the stands, other parents not wanting me on the team, not making certain teams just because I was a girl.
Hilary Knight
I’m trying to change up the pace in which I approach life so I’m not always go, go, go.
Hilary Knight
I wear yoga pants and get to work out all the time – it’s my job. I feel a little bit different when I go into what I call ‘the real world.’ It’s cool to be able to train as a full-time job, and it’s something that I love and will continue to try to make work for the next however-many years.
Hilary Knight
Going into a locker room that’s not even yours to begin with is certainly like you’re entering the lion’s den.
Hilary Knight
I think my role on a team is I love to put the puck in the back of the net. If that opportunity presents itself, and it happens for me, I get really excited.
Hilary Knight
I love my fans.
Hilary Knight
It was tough to get to where I am, to get the following that I do have on social media and all the fans out there, which I greatly appreciate, but I would love to have a template so the next girl who grows up doesn’t have to go through a lot of the hardships that we faced in our generation.
Hilary Knight
The Olympics are a completely different beast. It’s the most magical moment of your career.
Hilary Knight
Whatever I do, I want to impact people’s lives in a positive way.
Hilary Knight
The songs that are on my playlist find themselves there because I can identify with the lyrics, or they have some magical transformative power in the beat.
Hilary Knight
I think having a strong female figure in my mom as an in-house role model was huge and really motivated me to continue to pursue my passion and my dreams.
Hilary Knight
I remember coming out of college thinking, ‘OK, I’m gonna get an agent, and I’m gonna make money. I’m gonna make millions of dollars.’ And that never happened.
Hilary Knight
I am extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to play hockey, especially when there weren’t equal opportunities as there are now. But at times, it was challenging.
Hilary Knight