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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The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
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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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The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.
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I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.
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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 am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.
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'The View' was so much fun. So much fun because the audience was 85-percent fans that wanted to be there celebrating 'One Life to Live' and the other 15 percent were crew members from 'One Life to Live'. It was just really, really wonderful and the clips were wonderful.
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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.
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Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.
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Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.
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People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.
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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.
