Hockey Quotes - Page 27

• I do feel the weight of being the steward of the greatest sport the world ever came up with. I grew up with a love and admiration for it, so I feel an obligation to portray it as electric and terrifying and exciting and beautiful, and all these sometimes contradicting things that make hockey what it is.

  Jay Baruchel

  Beautiful, Sports, World

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• This is your moment. You're meant to be here.

  Herb Brooks

  Moments, Meant To Be, Best Hockey

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• I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that hope alive.

  Barry Blitt

  Player, Thinking, Realistic

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I'm process-orientated, and people say that about the details. But I love the players. My No. 1 job is to make them better men. My No. 2 job is to make them better at hockey, and I never confuse that. The best people I've ever been around in my life never let me get away with anything - ever. You can have all the details in the world, but if you can't communicate with people and find a way to help them help themselves, you have no chance in this league. To me, that's what the profession is about: getting guys to believe in themselves and each other.

  Mike Babcock

  Believe, Player, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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  Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011

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• I think as women on the national team, you start your hockey career and you also are starting to plan what you're going to do when it's over, because we don't make the millions of dollars and you have to have a life after.

  Hayley Wickenheiser

  Team, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The Tragically Hip, more so than any other band I've worked with, approach their work like a team. This might sound way too pat, but they're like a great hockey team: all five of them have their roles. They go at their shows like an athletic event; they're in it to win it, and they'll lay it out there on the proverbial ice in order to win and get the crowd on their side. You can't do that when you just throw a band together. There's a sixth sense there that makes it easy.

  Steve Berlin

  Team, Winning, Athletic

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There's hockey and football players tougher than me, there's gangbangers tougher than me. But my toughness is more, Jesus said "Be of tough mind, but tender heart; be tough as a serpent, but tender as a dove." That's who I am and what I do.

  Mr. T

  Football, Jesus, Heart

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?

  Steven Wright

  Men, Goalies, World

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• We've [me and brother] been playing hockey for a long time, since we were little kids. I started playing hockey at two and a half. Obviously, playing hockey we want to be known as good hockey players and hard working guys that earn everything they get.

  P. K. Subban

  Brother, Kids, Hard Work

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

  Ken Doherty

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, "You can like Mozart and ice hockey..." - and then I used to say "golf," but Tiger took over golf! - "and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades."

  Henry Louis Gates

  Golf, Years, Ice

  "35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• Here's how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. 'You're listening to the highlights,' Royko observed.

  Roger Ebert

  Funny, Team, Winter

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.211, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds ahead, or two hundredths of a second, or two days. Napoleon on an eighteenth century battlefield had something more like a two-day advantage. Wayne Gretzky in a hockey game was probably a second ahead of everyone else on the ice.

  Kevin Maney

  Ice, Games, Two

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Definitely very proud, very honoured to be Canadian. To be able to represent your country in Canada and win a gold medal on home soil is an honour in itself. There is no doubt in my mind that we were prepared for whatever it was going to take. And I think that we battled hard and we had no doubt in our mind that if we went out there and played Canadian hockey that we would come out successful.

  Meghan Agosta-Marciano

  Country, Home, Successful

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• It's going to be intense. This is what we played the whole tournament for, we had to play an extra game but I think that's a good thing, we got some line combinations working together fairly well now.

  Corey Perry

  Thinking, Games, Play

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• Chunking makes our brains more efficient. The more you can chunk something, the faster and easier you can process it. Wayne Gretzky had chunked hockey like no one before or since. Talented people have supremely chunked whatever they become talented at doing.

  Kevin Maney

  People, Brain, Wayne

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Wayne Gretzky's talent doesn't come from studying everything he's experienced in hockey and making long-term game plans. It comes from constantly taking in all the data that's happening in the moment on the ice, and instantly generating constant predictions based on super-efficient mental models he's built in his head. Technology has to work more like Gretzky.

  Kevin Maney

  Technology, Ice, Data

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.

  Rob Sheffield

  Player, Musician, Vegan

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.33, Penguin

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• Just because you've had one or two of those games, you can't really go back to the next practice and change everything. That's the most important thing in those situations that you don't think too much, you don't try to change too much because then you're going to be in deep trouble, that's what I think. It's all about keep working on what's been successful for you and keep believing what you're doing is the right thing.

  Jonas Gustavsson

  Sports, Believe, Successful

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• I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Fans, Canada, Firsts

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

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• I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

  Steven Pinker

  Writing, Ice, Metaphor

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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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• 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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• 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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