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We’re professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there’s some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that’s a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.

Bobby Orr

Once you turn pro and you’re making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.
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Country Kids Models Role Sneakers
If you talk to most athletes, the place you’re most comfortable is your playing field. I’m not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.
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Athlete Comfortable Events Game Sports Talking
We’ve got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.
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Coach Game Inspirational Motivational Suicide
I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.
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Country Game Hockey Ice Offensive Result Sports
I don’t spend a lot of time here in New York. I didn’t realize there were so many Bruins fans in New York.
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Country Fans Games Realizing Sports
When you’re young, you don’t realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.
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People Realizing Sacrifice
We’re going to have more kids playing, and we’re going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.
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Everyone Fun Kids Minor Recreation Sports
I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I’d finished playing, I had to go to work.
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Country Finished Game Hockey Playing Result Sports
I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You’re being paid to play a game! That’s pretty special.
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Country Games Ice Paid Play
If you’re going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I’ve never met, new friends.
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Country Game Helping Hockey People Result Sneak Sports
If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn’t be doing that.
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Intimate Player Skilled Team Trying
Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow ’cause there’s no one left to beat.
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Blood Hockey Practice
There are no environments where you’re only going to win, because life just isn’t like that.
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Country Game Hockey Result Sports Success
I didn’t want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn’t going to do one.
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Book Hockey Mind Read Want
The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we’re teaching – not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values – are sinking in.
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Smile Sports Teaching
Staying out of the penalty box will really help.
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Boxes Helping Stay Strong

We’re professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there’s some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that’s a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.

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We’re professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there’s some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that’s a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.

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