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When you’re young, you don’t realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.

Bobby Orr

So many of today’s programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that’s a big mistake.
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Mistakes Program Sports Thinking Trophies
When you’re young, you don’t realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.
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People Realizing Sacrifice
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
I’m a terrible dancer! Oh, I’m an awful dancer!
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Awful Country Dancer Game Terrible
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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Country Games Ice Paid Play
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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Country Game Helping Hockey People Result Sneak 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
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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Country Fun Game Hockey Memories Result 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.
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Book Hockey Mind Read Want
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
My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.
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Biggest Coach Dad Pressure Supporter
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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Country Game Hockey Hurt Player Result Sports Want
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
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
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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InterAction might Trying
We’ve got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.
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Coach Game Inspirational Motivational Suicide
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 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
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.
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Country Game Hockey Ice Kids Play Result Sports
On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he’s the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.
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Country Game Hockey Night Result Sports Winning
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
Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow ’cause there’s no one left to beat.
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Blood Hockey Practice
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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Athlete Believe Profession Responsibility Strongly
I’m really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.
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Country Different Game Hockey Names Paper 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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Country Game Games Hockey Player Sports
Staying out of the penalty box will really help.
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Boxes Helping Stay Strong
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

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