I've played hockey since I was a child - I'm pretty good.

[GeneD]

I've played hockey since I was a child - I'm pretty good. Sentence #7 at http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-present-perfect-1.html

What does the underlined part mean? Is it about being good at playing hockey or about feeling good about playing the game? Or something else, maybe?

 

[GeneD]

The normal assumption would be that the speaker was referring to their hockey skills.

Now you said this, it's crystal clear to me it was about skills. Now I can't understand why I thought it was about health.

 

[Rover_KE]

I expect you know that 'pretty good' means 'fairly good/quite good'.

 

[GeneD]

Thanks for pointing this out. Yes, I know it but I definitely could be unaware of it. There are countless little things in English I still don't know and which may cause misunderstanding. Just like in post #1. Well, it was about midnight here in Belarus when I saw that sentence, but I'm not sure it wouldn't happen at any time of the day.