Al MacInnis Quotes
It was the names of these four men that reminded me why playing for the Blues is as good as it gets in the National Hockey League.
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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 just love playing in major championships.
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I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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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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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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I went to hockey camp at Michigan because my dad has some relatives in the Ann Arbor area. We went to visit them as kids, and you start to learn the language from being around people. At the same time, when I got to college, I thought my English was better than it really was. I learned a lot over my four years.
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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Being surrounded by hockey, I got forced into it as a kid. I started skating when I was 4 and had a rink only 10 minutes from my home. In my town, we had one outdoor rink and one indoor rink, so you could skate all year long. I lived by a lake, too, so we did a lot of skating on the lake.
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I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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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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Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
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It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.
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I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.
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It should be interesting to see two entirely different ways to treat a story, geared for two entirely different kinds of audience.
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It was the names of these four men that reminded me why playing for the Blues is as good as it gets in the National Hockey League.
