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 ORRYou 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.
More Bobby Orr Quotes
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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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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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We’ve got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.
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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.
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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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There are no environments where you’re only going to win, because life just isn’t like that.
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I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.
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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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My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.
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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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When you’re young, you don’t realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.
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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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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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I’m really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.
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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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