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" 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. "

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

" In my first two world championship experiences, I barely saw the ice at all. "

" You have to lose to win a silver medal, so that's always the tough thing to wrap your head around. "

" 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. "

" Just having the hunger to continue to learn motivates me. "

" I'm able to be able to achieve certain things that others aren't - whether it's a reaction time or the idea of a coffee that's about to be spilled and I'm able to grab it before anyone else or whatever it is. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Here I am just trying to fund myself to play a sport, but the greater picture is that I'm a female athlete really pushing the envelope for women in sports. "

" Now I can give back and be a role model and an advocate for women in sport. "

" I like going on adventures or excursions. "

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

" Strong is beautiful. I want to shatter that stereotype that strong isn't beautiful, because it absolutely is. "

" I believe in lifestyle changes to accommodate a healthy living. "

" Whenever you go into a game, you want to win, and you want to come out victorious in any way. "

" Social media is huge. You can give people a behind-the-scenes look at your life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Growing up, and the way that the media portrays, you're supposed to look a certain way. Muscles aren't beautiful. Muscles aren't feminine. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Girls are breaking barriers and boundaries every day in everything from sports and science to business and the creative arts. "

" I hope one day I will be able to play in a game in the NHL, not just practice. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" People don't know how fantastic women's ice hockey is. People don't know how fantastic hockey is in general. "