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The kid looks good in his first game.
Gordie Howe / Ice Hockey Player
Kids
Hockey
Nhl
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That was Dad. Don't take any dirt from anybody.
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Dirt
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People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.
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People
Wells
People Say
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My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.
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Dad
Fiddle
Guitar
Mother
Played
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You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.
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Hockey
Nhl
Thinking
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Everybody whose anybody in hockey has played in Hershey.
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Hershey
Hockey
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All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
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Sports
Hockey
Player
Profanity
Bilingual
English
Players
Hockey Players
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The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back.
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Firsts
Gretzky
Wayne
Time First Time Back
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I don't want to retire, because you stay retired for an awfully long time.
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Retired
Time Long Long Time
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I like to think that I'm a family man first and a professional athlete second.
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Athlete
Family Man
Professional Athlete
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American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.
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Profanity
Speak
Athletes
Bilingual
Professional Athletes
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It's been said that, while growing up, I ate meals with my skates on. It's true.
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Meals
Skates
Ate
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To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.
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Leadership
Sports
Fun
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Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.
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Hate
Hockey
Mean
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It's not easy to retire. No one teaches you how. I found that out when I tried it the first time. I'm not a quitter.
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Teaches
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My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.
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Negative
Past
Philosophy
Talking
Follows
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I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.
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Kids
Learning
Sports
Children
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I would say it is important to have a good education, as hockey is a career that does not last many years, and you need to be prepared for this.
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Be Prepared
Good Education
Hockey
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I wish I had more opportunities to play for Canada when I was younger, but pros just never had the chance in those days. It was just set up that way.
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Canada
Pros
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If I learned one thing by playing professional hockey for thirty-two years, it's that you have to love what you do. And that's not just true for sports.
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Sports
Hockey
Learned
To Love
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I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there.
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Healthy
Last Time
Michigan
Wife
Cadillac
Rink
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I might have some quibbles with the way the game is played today, but at its core, I know that hockey will always be hockey no matter what year the calendar reads.
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Hockey
Calendar
Reads
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You should hold the top hand on the stick like you would hold a hammer when you're driving a nail. You have the most leverage, and you won't get your wrist broken.
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Hammer
Leverage
Nail
Wrist
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It doesn't matter whether I'm in an NHL arena, at a local rink, or on a sheet of ice in the middle of a baseball stadium: when I'm around the game, I feel at home.
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Arena
Ice
Nhl
Rink
Sheet
Stadium
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If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.
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Hockey
Hockey Player
Player
Want
See I Can Go
Wherever
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You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
Gordie Howe / Ice Hockey Player
Inspirational
Motivational
Peace
Sports
Athlete
Effort
Enjoy
Hundred
Mind
Peace Of Mind
Sleep
Win Or Lose
Yourself
Find
Win
Rest
Gave
Lose
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You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.
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Long Time
Love Time Long
Aches
Overcome
Continue
Handicap
Pains
To Love
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You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.
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Attitude
Hockey
Pain
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I still believe it is important that children have a chance to play other sports because they all offer learning experiences. Soccer is a growing sport and would be a good complement to hockey.
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Complement
Hockey
Soccer
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Growing up during the Depression, we didn't have much, but we had each other, we had our friends, and that was pretty much all we needed. I was aware that some people had more, but those who did, shared.
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Depression
Growing Up
Needed
People More Who
Aware
Shared
Some People
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There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.
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Games
Guessing
Player
Wish
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If you make it anywhere in life, you owe that success to the people along the way who stuck up for you, or made sacrifices for you, and gave you a push when you needed it. In my case, those people were my family.
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Needed
Stuck
Life Success Family
Anywhere
Case
Owe
Push
Sacrifices
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Overall I can fairly safely say Bobby Orr impressed me more than anybody with his tremendous talents. In Bobby's first N.H.L. game he layed the lumber to Gordie's head. Later Howe retalliated and wanted to let the kid know he wasn't washed up yet.
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Kids
Games
Hockey
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I'm aware that not everyone approved of how I played, but I don't think any apologies are in order. Early in my career, I decided that it was worth it to do whatever was necessary to earn the extra split second it takes to make a pass or shoot the puck.
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Apology
Approved
Puck
Worth It
Earn
Extra
Split
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