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.

Steve Yzerman

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• I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Nation

• 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.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Player

• I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • Sports
  • Hockey

• Kansas City is one of the most convenient airports in the nation.

  

  Sam Graves
  • City
  • Nation
  • Kansas

• I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Nation

• My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Dream
  • See
  • Nation

• We'll have clinics and educational events and conferences to get more and more young players developing as hockey players.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Young
  • Events
  • Hockey

• 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.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Give
  • Nation

• Patriots don't let their nation default.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Nation
  • Patriotism
  • Patriots

• 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.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Guy
  • Sexy
  • Hockey

• 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.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • Up
  • House
  • Dad

• Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.

  

  Jamie Farr
  • Great
  • Beginning
  • Hockey

• 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.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Dad
  • Football
  • Son

• 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.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Why
  • Hockey

• Boxing should not let - we should not let - the people in business of boxing should not let a person to just walk right in and get the grand prize of boxing. You can't do it in basketball, football, hockey.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • People
  • Business
  • Football

• My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.

  

  James McNerney
  • World
  • Business
  • Bad

• 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.'

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Up
  • Real
  • Earth

• I love hockey. That's actually one of my favorite sports.

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • Sports
  • Hockey

• The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Way
  • Nation
  • Wealthy

• Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Water
  • Never
  • Baby

• Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Tree
  • Creation
  • Insult

• Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.

  

  Izabel Goulart
  • motivation
  • Sport
  • Concentration

• 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.

  

  Steve Yzerman
  • Nation
  • Hockey
  • Dominant