Author of quotes: Ekaterina Mirenkova

Why I became a hockey player? I confess, I about it especially did not think. But once I was asked to tell how I came to love hockey, and I... I couldn't answer this question. Just as a child I spent a lot of time on the ice. And then one day in my hands was a stick.

So the main, in my opinion, a hell of a hockey player Kharlamov that he played effortlessly. Uninhibited, without any visible effort, as the bird flies. Sometimes recognized defenders he traveled so naturally, that might seem an experienced master decided to play around with the kids on a backyard rink. However, Valery Kharlamov, although he is not heroic article, the offense did not forgive anyone. This guy knew how to handle themselves when the opponent has declined to what is called "dirty game". But even though courage is a worthy quality in all its manifestations, Kharlamov still remember the hardness in hard martial arts, and the creative courage...

Valery was talented. Talented as the artist - in the broadest sense of the word.

He always talked about hockey, about coaches, about friends, about fans, but almost never about themselves. The legendary number 17. The man, whose name will be remembered as long as hockey.

It the audience loved, respected friends and rivals mourned and the whole world...

Hockey is my element, a happy hobby, this sparkling temperamental the game is inexhaustible, as inexhaustible in the human thirst for competition and self-assertion. The puck is back in play, again boil of passion, again speed seem to be already beyond the players, again flying at you, the defender, and you know what to give him not: because "the coward does not play hockey". And this game triumphs, lives, attracts millions of boys who want to be near us, come to us.