Hockey Quotes - Page 29

• Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.

  Bob Costas

  Sports, Gold, Looks

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• I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

  Bill Bowerman

  Sports, Running, Records

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• If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.

  John G. Rowland

  Sports, Mistake, Vasectomy

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• Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

  Mark Messier

  New York, Player, Years

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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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• When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Baseball, Team, Kids

  "Jerry Bruckheimer Predicts U.S. Film Will No Longer Dominate Internationally". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 27, 2015.

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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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• The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash the icon, the whole concept of global warming would be destroyed with it.

  Michael E. Mann

  Icons, Would Be, Sticks

  "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

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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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• 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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