Hockey Quotes - Page 26

• I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

  Adam Oates

  School, Years, Play

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• I applied a lot of the same principles I used in hockey into my acting. I might have had some naive ambitions of making the NHL, but thank God, playing hockey gave me a good foundation for everything else.

  Vincent Piazza

  Ambition, Nhl, Thank God

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• The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

  Tony Robbins

  Change, Success, Fitness

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• The three important elements in hockey are: the forecheck, the backcheck and the paycheck.

  Gilbert Perreault

  Important, Three, Elements

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• Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.

  Gordie Howe

  Hate, Mean, Nhl

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• Basically, I don't like anybody.

  Brantt Myhres

  Nhl

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• I could not hear what they say about me, my 2 Stanley Cup rings were stuffed in my ears.

  Patrick Roy

  Ears, Cups, Stanley Cup

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• Some guys are more worried about their Vegas trip at the end of the season than playing the games, than playing every minute of the games. Quite frankly, I don't care about your Vegas trip right now.

  Jean-Sebastien Giguere

  Vegas, Games, Guy

  "Top Shelf: Veteran Giguere calls out 'embarrassing' Avs". www.foxnews.com. April 09, 2013.

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• Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.

  Amarillo Slim

  Sports, Looks, Tables

  "Amarillo Slim obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2012.

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• The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

  Percy Cerutty

  Sports, Self, Expression

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• I've played hockey most my life and I've never been badly injured...Three weeks into curling I've got bone chips in both my elbows. I still can't lean on a table. I've even got curling injuries, believe it or not, just from falling on my arse.

  James Allodi

  Sports, Believe, Fall

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• No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.

  Brian Oldfield

  Sports, Men, Example

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• When someone like Brian Oldfield can beat me, I will retire.

  Randy Matson

  Sports, Beats, Brian

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• Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

  Don Kardong

  Sports, Food, Inspiration

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• It was probably the biggest accomplishment of my life.

  Jerome Bettis

  Sports, Accomplishment

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• I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.

  Rulon Gardner

  Sports, Jobs, Done

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• It only hurt once, from beginning to end.

  James Counsilman

  Sports, Hurt, Ends

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• It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

  Ann Trason

  Inspirational, Running, Hurt

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• It's never been easy. But I've always wanted to play hockey. I love hockey. I'd rather play hockey than do anything else. If you have that kind of desire, I think you can achieve what you want to achieve.

  Manon Rheaume

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least some of the time. That's why my family will be at a college football game this weekend. We need it. And deserve it, too. Not like a New York fireman deserves it. Or a medic at the Pentagon. But enough.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Football, New York

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• In and of itself, sports may be trivial, but as a symbol of the American way of life, it has enormous weight. We are seen, worldwide, as an enormously competitive, enthusiastic people who work as hard as we play and play as hard as we work. When baseball - which has traditionally canceled one day of games for huge national celebrations or disasters - stops play for six days, that has reverberations in the national consciousness.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

  Bud Selig

  Sports, Country, Mean

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• I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

  Steven Chu

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

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• Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

  Martina Hingis

  Baseball, Player, Tennis

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• A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

  Ted Lindsay

  Attitude, Rumor, Detroit

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