Hockey Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where its packed every night, theres nothing like it.

  Carl Hagelin

  Team, Garden, Player

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• An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked.

  Pat Burns

  Naked, Accepted, Homosexual

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• I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

  Bob Dylan

  Growing Up, Play, Age

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• The great thing about hockey players is that they are able to separate the on-ice from the off-ice and not let the latter distract them.

  Stu Grimson

  Player, Ice, Able

  Source: blackhawkup.com

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• Personally I don't believe in standing on the ice, or jamming the blueline, waiting. I have always told my players that hockey has to be played on your toes.

  Bob Hartley

  Believe, Player, Ice

  Source: flamesnation.ca

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• Whether the guys are nervous or just had mental breakdowns, it happens. The game is a game of mistakes. And how you deal with them and correct them and all the things like that is what makes this game great and makes hockey the sport it is.

  Chris Pronger

  Sports, Mistake, Games

  "Off-Day News: Leighton To Start Game 2, Carcillo Back In? Pronger Gets Feisty At Presser". Interview with Tim Panaccio, www.broadstreethockey.com. May 30, 2010.

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• You get a pretty good read by watching the play, and knowing what you would have done - having done most of the things that these guys are accused of doing. I put myself in their shoes: Would I have been wanting to send a message? Is it a hockey play that went a little sideways?

  Chris Pronger

  Play, Shoes, Knowing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I was captain of the netball team, captain of the hockey team and I did my sprinting, but I would push myself. That's why yoga is really good for me because it actually slows me down and finds some sort of space for me.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Team, Yoga, Space

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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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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