Lester B. Pearson Quotes
This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national symbol as the maple leaf.
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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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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As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
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I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
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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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'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.
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Of course managers win ball games.
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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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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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And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.
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I really did love hockey. It was one of my favorite things to do.
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I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun.
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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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I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.
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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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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'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.
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The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.
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I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with the artists I work with is that I'm not front and center, and they are.
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This fastest of all games [hockey] has become almost as much of a national symbol as the maple leaf.
