There are no environments where you’re only going to win, because life just isn’t like that.
BOBBY ORROnce 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.
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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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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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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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’m a terrible dancer! Oh, I’m an awful dancer!
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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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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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I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I’d finished playing, I had to go to work.
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So many of today’s programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that’s a big mistake.
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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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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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Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow ’cause there’s no one left to beat.
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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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We’ve got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.
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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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