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.
BOBBY ORRThe 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.
More Bobby Orr Quotes
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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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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 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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My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.
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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 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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When you’re young, you don’t realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.
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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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I’m a terrible dancer! Oh, I’m an awful dancer!
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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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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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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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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’ve got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.
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Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow ’cause there’s no one left to beat.
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