Lacrosse Quotes - Page 2

• I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.

  Will McDonough

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

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• We got the goals early in the game and I thought we just got a little too comfortable with things. They started changing their defense, they started going from a zone defense to a man-to-man and doing different things. We got sloppy, and I give them credit for the way they played. We got sloppy and had some turnovers there. We did have some opportunities, one-on-one with the goalie in the second there, but we need to finish things. They found some momentum in their defense and were able to crawl back in.

  John Desko

  Opportunity, Men, Games

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• We don't play golf often [with kids] because they don't play that much anymore - because their kids don't play. It's like anything else - fathers these days end up in the parks on the weekends and they have their kids into lacrosse or soccer or whatever it might be.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Soccer, Father, Kids

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.

  Jim Brown

  Running, Guy, Littles

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• Twenty years ago people thought they were fishing nets and all sorts of things when you brought out a lacrosse stick. Now almost everywhere you go, people have heard of it, they've seen it and they're like, "Oh, that's sport I saw on TV or my grandson plays that," and it's changed the face of the game and potential of the future.

  Gary Gait

  Sports, Years, Fishing

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• I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Soccer, Baseball, Hockey

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• It's lacrosse that helped teach me to spin off checks, take shots and protect the puck under pressure. My stick skills, the way to read the play quickly comes from lacrosse. The hand-eye coordination, is just one of the little things that helps you in hockey.

  John Tavares

  Eye, Hockey, Skills

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• Hurling looks a bit like a cross between lacrosse and second degree murder.

  David Feherty

  Degrees, Looks, Murder

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• American field players would really help themselves if they were exposed to a steady stream of box experience. Box lacrosse is an extremely valuable background for a young player, we need to incorporate more of the indoor skills in to the field game. It is almost a requirement to have a top player with indoor experience on your roster right now.

  Dom Starsia

  Player, Games, Skills

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• I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.

  Brian J. White

  Sports, Football, Opportunity

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• The last thing we can afford right now is to make excuses. We're inexperienced at some spots, that's the way it is. We have injuries, so does everyone, that's the way it is.

  Dave Pietramala

  Way, Lasts, Doe

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• Until box lacrosse grows in the United States, it'll continue to be this way.

  Bill Tierney

  Way, United States, Boxes

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• If I was US Lacrosse, I wouldn't let any kids play field until they were 10 or 12.

  Bill Tierney

  Kids, Play, Fields

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• You will agree that the Duke Lacrosse team raped and damaged or whatever, even though it didn't happen. You will be made to agree. You will understand that there is going to be amnesty and you will love it and you will stop speaking out against it. And until you do, you are in our crosshairs. It's who they are. That is the modern-day Democrat Party, and certainly that is the attitude of their major donors.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Attitude, Team, Party

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• First, my congratulations to Yale on their success this year. The more film we watched, the more we realized what a good lacrosse team they were. They don't have any weaknesses. We told the guys all week long, we're going to have to roll up our sleeves and work hard to get this one. Congrats to them for their season.

  John Desko

  Team, Congratulations, Hard Work

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• Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a legion upon the dark rooftops. The wind came down from the north like a runner in lacrosse, violent and hard, to batter every living thing. They were there, each one alone in conversation with the stars, mining ephemeral love from cold and distant light.

  Mark Helprin

  Stars, Dark, Light

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• There is nothing you can be doing in lacrosse on your own in the fall that would be better for you than going to football or soccer practice every day. You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

  Dom Starsia

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Girl, School, Hockey

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• Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse team, the president of your senior class, Phi Beta Kappa, or a political activist doesn't mean that your teenager will be or should be the same....Likewise, the fact that you were a wallflower, uncoordinated, and a C student shouldn't mean that you push your child to be everything you were not.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Senior, Children, Teenager

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.

  Grace Gummer

  Team, Swim, Hot

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.

  St. Vincent

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  Imterview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2007.

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• Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

  Nancy Lopez

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• I think we came out and got the first goals fairly easily and fairly quickly. All of a sudden they started to change the defense and they changed things up on us and I thought we got a little too comfortable. I give their goalie credit, he made some very good saves, but we just wanted to score. We changed some things halfway through the fourth quarter and we were able to generate some shots. I think for most of the year we've been good on offense. We haven't really struggled like that. We knew coming into the season that we'd have to share the ball on offense and really be efficient.

  John Desko

  Thinking, Years, Giving

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• I think this is our ninth one-goal game this year. We lost three by one and this is our sixth win by one. Unfortunately, the guys are used to being in these kinds of situations and made some pretty good adjustments down the stretch to win the game. I thought our defense played great all game long. While we didn't have it at one half, we picked it up on the other side of the field. I'm proud of the guys. Any win this time of year is a great win.

  John Desko

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.

  Steven Yeun

  Basketball, Football, Brother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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