Steve Yzerman (Stephen Gregory Yzerman) Quotes
It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.
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I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
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That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
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The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.
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I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
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Kansas City is one of the most convenient airports in the nation.
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I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.
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My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields.
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We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.
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We must be an inclusive nation that respects and supports all of its citizens: a nation that doesn't give up on anyone who hasn't given up on themselves.
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Just a warning: If you're a bunch of sexy teenagers at a lake where other sexy teenagers were killed 30 years ago, leave! The guy in the forest with a hockey mask... maybe doesn't play hockey.
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The hockey I was raised on, the hockey I understand, the hockey that my dad taught me about when I was a boy was intrinsically connected with fighting. I grew up in a house where we revered tough guys.
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It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.
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I always wanted to play ice hockey back in Australia, I'm not sure why, but we didn't have any ice where I lived. It was very hot - a coastal town.
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You have to realize I grew up in a real hockey town. And there I was wearing bow ties and watching the gayest movies on the face of Earth, like 'Clueless.'
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I love hockey. That's actually one of my favorite sports.
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I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.
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I played hockey my whole life until my ambition outstripped my ability, which happens to most Canadians around 15 or 16 years old.
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People know me from a hockey game, from an earthquake, from the O.J case.
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But there was a hockey game where they didn't even play hockey, they just threw the puck aside and started fighting. I saw that and I thought, 'Oh man, I'm a thug?' So I'm really disappointed in being called a thug.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.
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The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.
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It's true that in Canada, we pride ourselves on the game, and we like to think we're the dominant hockey nation in the world.
