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.
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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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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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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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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There are no environments where you’re only going to win, because life just isn’t like that.
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Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.
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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 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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Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow ’cause there’s no one left to beat.
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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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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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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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We’ve got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.
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My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.
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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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