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 ORRI 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.
More Bobby Orr Quotes
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I’m a terrible dancer! Oh, I’m an awful dancer!
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I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I’d finished playing, I had to go to work.
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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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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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I couldn’t wait to get on the ice. I couldn’t wait to get to practice. As a kid I couldn’t wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.
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You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don’t all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.
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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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So many of today’s programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that’s a big mistake.
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Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow ’cause there’s no one left to beat.
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I’m really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.
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When you’re young, you don’t realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.
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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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You never know how a single interaction with a person might affect their life, so you must constantly try to be at your best.
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We’ve got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.
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Sidney Crosby, our greatest player, I don’t want to see Sidney Crosby in the penalty box. I don’t want to see Sidney Crosby hurt. I want to see Sidney Crosby play.
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