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“Just use the same quotes. It's the same story.”

“It seems like we're doing just enough to lose by a little.”

“Why don't they allow professional wrestling at the Olympics? They allow pro basketball players and hockey players. Olympic pro wrestling would be awesome. The team from Mexico could wear those Mr. X masks. The French wrestler could hit his opponent with a baguette. Or perhaps just surrender.”

“My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it.”

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Author:Michael Wilbon

“Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.”

Thinking Needs Sports Team Football Basketball Essence Baseball Seasons Hockey Defining Parity

Author:Michael Wilbon

“We're not only hockey players. A lot of guys have families and girlfriends. You can't just think about hockey 24-7.”

Thinking Guy Player Girlfriend Hockey Hockey Player

Author:Mike Comrie

“But there was a hockey game where they didn't even play hockey, they just threw the puck aside and started fighting. I saw that and I thought, 'Oh man, I'm a thug?' So I'm really disappointed in being called a thug.”

Knows Men Play Fighting Games Saws Nfl Hockey Thug Puck

Author:Richard Sherman

“Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.”

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Author:Charlie Kaufman

“If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.”

Ifs Knows Play Know How Quitting Get Back Hockey

Author:David Walton

“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”

“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”

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Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”

Source: 99 My Life in Pictures

“Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.”

Needs Helping Guy Sports Successful Unique Being Successful Hockey Pulling Helping Each Other

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.”

Thinking Children Play Individual Sports Effort Responsibility Team Hockey Playing Sports

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.”

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Author:Wayne Gretzky

“Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.”

Life Is Games Player Minutes Involved Coaching Hockey Nhl

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.”

“I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.”

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Author:Wayne Gretzky

“And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.”

People Knows Hockey Know Me

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.”

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Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I think I'm a mama's boy who wanted to be a hockey player, who failed, and had to become a singer. I think that I'm a generous, impatient, kind, jerk.”

Thinking Kind Wanted Boys Player Singers Generous Hockey Impatient Mama Jerk Hockey Player Mama's Boy

Author:Michael Buble

“Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and probably play hockey.”

Source: Crossing Paths: Uncommon Encounters with Animals in the Wild

“My wife likes the hockey smell because its the smell of a warrior.”

Wife Smell My Wife Likes Warrior Hockey

Author:David Walton

“Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style? So they can both keep watching the hockey game”

Games Style Hockey

Author:Norm Crosby

“I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.”

Watches Growing Up Growing Hockey Dakota North Dakota

Author:Phil Jackson

“Heroes? Vietnam Vets are heroes. The guys who tried to rescuse our hostages in Iran are heroes. I'm just a hockey player.”

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Author:Mike Eruzione

“I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'”

Men Wells Play Wanted Okay Hockey

Author:Corey Haim

“I'm probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don't worry about it.”

Years Guy Winning Worry Titles Hockey Bad Years

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“Fighting is necessary in hockey. But if you fight, you have to choose your partner carefully. If you're an experienced player and you want to fight, you can't choose a player who has never fought in his life.”

Ifs Want Fighting Player Partners Hockey

Author:Alexander Ovechkin

“In a hockey fight, barring the occasional brawl, theres actually some etiquette that goes into it. Honor, too, absolutely. Most of those guys that do it, thats their job, and they follow a certain code of conduct in doing it.”

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Author:Tom Glavine

“I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.”

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Author:Rahul Dravid

“Whether youre trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, Ive always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether its as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.”

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Author:Sidney Crosby

“You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.”

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Author:Guy Lafleur

“I never wanted to be an actor as a kid. I wanted to play hockey, like every other kid in Canada. I had a pretty good shot at it until I was 15 and badly injured myself.”

Play Kids Wanted Actors Shots Canada Hockey Injured

Author:Matt Frewer

“I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.”

Knows Games Simple Figures Objects Hockey Skating Figure Skating Puck

Author:Patrick Chan

“I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.”

Kind Play Facts Kids Able Sports Golf All Kinds Soccer Tennis Hockey Skating

Author:Patrick Chan

“After I started to understand the spiritual dimension of life, I understood the responsibilities you have as a husband, a father, a friend and a hockey player.”

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Author:Paul Henderson

“A hockey team is like a puzzle. Every piece is vital.”

Pieces Team Hockey Puzzles Hockey Team

Author:Bob Hartley

“They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them.”

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Author:Johnny Carson

“Well, I've got something to tell you, In my last life I was a Spanish Count and one of the things I loved to do when I was a count in Spain was take all the commoners, line them up against a wall and throw rocks at them, being a professional hockey goalie is punishment for my bad habits in past lives.”

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Author:Gilles Gratton

“The difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: At some point, a pit bull does stop whining.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.”

Looks Differences Feet Mom Mass Machines Hockey Turkeys Hockey Mom

Author:Keith Olbermann

“I just heard George W. Bush's new plan for airline security. From here on out, every plane will now have its own hockey dad.”

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Author:David Letterman

“You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.”

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Book:Orr: My Story

Source: Orr: My Story

“I'd never complain about the attention - ever. I feel very fortunate to be doing what I love to do. Not everyone gets that chance every day. This is just part of it, and it comes down to managing my time to make sure I concentrate on my passion, which is the hockey, and have time away from hockey.”

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Author:Sidney Crosby

“I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.”

Thinking Has Beens Might Decision Team Honest My Family Being Honest Soccer Hockey Might Have Been Good Decision Hockey Team Soccer Team

Author:Carl Hagelin

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

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Author:Carl Hagelin

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

Accepted Naked Hockey Homosexual Milieu

Author:Pat Burns

“About 4000 men, women and teenagers regularly venture out to play a game in -20 weather and stinging prairie winds. Bundled in sweaters and snow suits, balaclavas on their heads and suction cupped shoes on their feet. They slip and slide across the outdoor hockey rinks chasing a soft rubber puck in the Sponge Hockey Capital of the World.”

Men World Play Games Feet Wind Shoes Snow Weather Suits Teenager Hockey Slips Venture Chasing Slides Men Women Rubber Sweaters Sponges Prairie Puck

Author:Bob Cox

“There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience.”

Should Kind Ends Games Justice Audience Stage Media Musician Theater Mediums Soccer Hockey Opera Pits Theatrical Hybrid Either Or Playing Soccer

Author:Christoph Waltz

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