Hilary Knight

Fortunately, I have some amazing partners that I work with that continue to support me and enable me to unleash the best me!

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.

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.'

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.

As long as I still love the game and I can contribute to a team, I'd love to keep playing.

I think, as an athlete, you tend to be cautious of your body language and what you're doing on the ice. That might be the only moment someone sees you.

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.

The song 'I Feel the Earth Move' brings me back to those younger years when I was taking my first strides on the ice.

I absolutely love music. Music is so powerful and can set the tone and change your mood.

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.

The real answers aren't in textbooks; they can be found through experiences.

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.

When I was 5, I'm like,' I'm doing this,' whether there's women's ice hockey, men's ice hockey, whatever it was in my future.

My dad was traveling a lot, but when he would come home and cook, he'd cook pizza.

I'm trying to change up the pace in which I approach life so I'm not always go, go, go.

The Olympics are a completely different beast. It's the most magical moment of your career.

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.

I golf for my own entertainment and my teammates' entertainment.

I absolutely have loved my career path and everything that I've done personally, but it was tough.

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.