- Howard Bloom: There's a big difference between hockey and most other games because you're moving at a far higher speed.
- Victoria Silverwood: When you've got guys who are skating at 30 miles an hour, and they've got a massive stick in their hand which could be a weapon, you're going to get some kind of tension that comes from that game.
- Howard Bloom: And in an environment where a body suddenly becomes a lethal weapon because of the speed at which it's moving, the danger, the adrenaline level, the need to protect yourself is far higher than it is in a normal environment.
- Dave Schultz: I didn't start playing hockey to go out on the ice and fight. It's the last thing I woulda thought of. But once you start, I was never able to stop.
- Brian McGratton: I'm a little different, I mean I look at another guy and I wanna beat his face in every time I see that guy on the ice.
- Victoria Silverwood: They've explained to me that they actually think there's a lot more cheap shots going on in leagues without an enforcer.
- Jeff Marek: Intellectually, it doesn't make sense. You're trying to take a round black thing and put it over a red line. That's the game. And whoever does it the most times, that wins.
- Eric Godard: The refs have the ultimate control on what not gets called, but there's just some stuff that, that doesn't get called, that's not going to, that it's up to the enforcer to take care of.
- Clark Gillies: My opinion of an enforcer is a guy that protects his teammates. He goes out there and he guards against stupid stuff happening to a guy that can't protect himself.
- Ron Asselstine: If the players feel that we're not out there protecting them, then they're gonna start to protect themselves.