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I’m really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.

Bobby Orr

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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Athlete Comfortable Events Game Sports Talking
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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Everyone Fun Kids Minor Recreation Sports
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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Country Dream Game Growing Hockey Result Sports
I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.
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Country Game Hockey Ice Offensive Result Sports
There are no environments where you’re only going to win, because life just isn’t like that.
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Country Game Hockey Result Sports Success
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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Intimate Player Skilled Team Trying
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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Country Game Games Hockey Player Sports
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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Country Kids Models Role Sneakers
My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.
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Biggest Coach Dad Pressure Supporter
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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Book Hockey Mind Read Want
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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Smile Sports Teaching
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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Country Fans Games Realizing Sports
When you’re young, you don’t realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.
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People Realizing Sacrifice
I’m a terrible dancer! Oh, I’m an awful dancer!
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Awful Country Dancer Game Terrible
I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I’d finished playing, I had to go to work.
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Country Finished Game Hockey Playing Result Sports
Staying out of the penalty box will really help.
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Boxes Helping Stay Strong

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