Hockey Sticks Quotes

• Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

  Stan Mikita

  Hurt, Hockey, Friendly

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• 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.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Baby, Hockey

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

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Athlete, Hockey

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

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Wayne Gretzky (2000). “99 My Life in Pictures”, Mint Pub

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

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 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.

  Johnny Carson

  Hurt, Hockey, Answers

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• After the hockey stick, Sardara Singh scores with the broom! A great effort by him towards a Swachh Bharat.

  Narendra Modi

  Hockey, Effort, Sticks

  Twitter post from Oct 29, 2014

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• When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to have finagled their data, as in that ludicrous "hockey stick" graph, pretending to prove that the world had suddenly become much hotter than at any time in 1,000 years. Any theory needing to rely so consistently on fudging the evidence, I concluded, must be looked on not as science at all, but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberrations of group psychology.

  Christopher Booker

  Hockey, Years, Data

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• I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Christmas, Sports, Brother

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• I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?

  James A. Michener

  Girl, Hockey, Men

  James A. Michener (2014). “Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan”, p.72, Dial Press

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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

  Hockey, Icons, Would Be

  "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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• Not to mention our former tag team champions lost their titles after my good friend Christian was hit in the genitals with a hockey stick by a midgit! I mean enough is enough

  Kurt Angle

  Christian, Team, Mean

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• It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

  Jimmy Connors

  Basketball, Football, Dad

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 9, 2013.

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• I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's room, to give the scene texture, and we tried a field hockey stick. It looked really good to me, until someone had to say that in America, field hockey is more of a girl's game. Gradually I got tuned into the world - that happens on every movie.

  Ang Lee

  Girl, Wall, Kids

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• My dad had this thing - everyone in Canada wants to play hockey; that's all they want to do. So when I was a kid, whenever we skated my dad would not let us on the ice without hockey sticks, because of this insane fear we would become figure skaters!

  Norm MacDonald

  Funny, Dad, Kids

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• You know, when you think about it, that’s kind of a weird thing. I mean it’s meant to be sympathetic, right? But it’s kind of not. Like you’re telling the person there’s nothing unique about what they’re saying I considered this as a couple of kids on Rollerblades whizzed past, hockey sticks over their shoulders. “Yeah,” I said, finally, “but you could also look at it the other way. Like no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

  Sarah Dessen

  Couple, Mean, Kids

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