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We’ve got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.

Bobby Orr

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.
BOBBY ORR

Everyone Fun Kids Minor Recreation Sports
So many of today’s programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that’s a big mistake.
BOBBY ORR

Mistakes Program Sports Thinking Trophies
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.
BOBBY ORR

Book Hockey Mind Read Want
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.
BOBBY ORR

Intimate Player Skilled Team Trying
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

Athlete Believe Profession Responsibility Strongly
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.
BOBBY ORR

Smile Sports Teaching
Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow ’cause there’s no one left to beat.
BOBBY ORR

Blood Hockey Practice
On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he’s the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.
BOBBY ORR

Country Game Hockey Night Result Sports Winning
Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.
BOBBY ORR

Country Dream Game Growing Hockey 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.
BOBBY ORR

Country Games Ice Paid Play
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.
BOBBY ORR

Country Game Games Hockey Player Sports
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.
BOBBY ORR

Country Game Hockey Ice Kids Play Result Sports
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.
BOBBY ORR

Country Game Helping Hockey People Result Sneak Sports
When you’re young, you don’t realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.
BOBBY ORR

People Realizing Sacrifice
I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I’d finished playing, I had to go to work.
BOBBY ORR

Country Finished Game Hockey Playing Result Sports
My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.
BOBBY ORR

Biggest Coach Dad Pressure Supporter

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