I love hockey!! In my opinion, it is hard, fun, and sometimes sad when I lose. You need to be smart, athletic, fast, strong, and have good hand-eye coordination. Hockey is like a sport but harder. How hard? Like Brendan Shanahan (the great hockey player) once said, "Hockey players need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner, and the concentration of a surgeon, while moving at a high speed on blades 1/8 of an inch thick, while 5 other guys use sticks to try and smash you!" BUT in the meantime, hockey is a lot of fun because it is a very challenging sport. You have to put a lot of sweat work and effort into it to improve your physicality, you need to put in a lot of time to get the edge to work better, which is critical for the stops, sharp turns, and the transitions. Like any other sport, hockey keeps me strong and healthy. What I like the most is that it is a team sport, and I know if I work hard, smart, and together with my teammates and friends, we can accomplish anything.