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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.

Bobby Orr

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

Blood Hockey Practice
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 ORR

Country Kids Models Role Sneakers
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
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
There are no environments where you’re only going to win, because life just isn’t like that.
BOBBY ORR

Country Game Hockey Result Sports Success
Staying out of the penalty box will really help.
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Boxes Helping Stay Strong
My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.
BOBBY ORR

Biggest Coach Dad Pressure Supporter
I’m a terrible dancer! Oh, I’m an awful dancer!
BOBBY ORR

Awful Country Dancer Game Terrible
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 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
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
When you’re young, you don’t realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.
BOBBY ORR

People Realizing Sacrifice
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

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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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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