When you’re young, you don’t realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.
BOBBY ORRBlood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow ’cause there’s no one left to beat.
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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I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I’d finished playing, I had to go to work.
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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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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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There are no environments where you’re only going to win, because life just isn’t like that.
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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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I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.
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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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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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Staying out of the penalty box will really help.
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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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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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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 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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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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