Top 15 Gabe Polsky Quotes

#1. I speak a little bit of Russian.

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#2. I've had a lot of coaches in my life, but I've only had a few very good ones. So, I try to take from the best ones and apply those to what I do and think and with anyone I work with in terms of how to motivate people and work with them.

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#3. In the U.S., coaches could be the father next door. They had no formal training. They're like old hockey players. They don't go to school and study.

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#4. I'm writing and putting together my next few things. Even during the Red Army process, I've been writing and developing things, so that now that I'm done and with efforts supporting it throughout this process, I'm armed and ready to go with some things that I'm really passionate about.

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#5. My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.

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#6. Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

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#7. I don't want to get into being too hockey centered, but I just felt like the late 70's and 80's into the 90's was the right time period to tell the story.

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#8. Growing up, I didn't know very much about my heritage and the Soviet Union and things of that nature. But when I saw the Soviet Union play hockey for the first time, to me, it was profound.

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#9. I'm American and I wanted my friend and people to see ' Red Army' . I didn't want it to be a film for Russia, although I did show it there and they absolutely loved it.

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#10. Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read into it and say, "Wow! You know what? Whatever they're doing over there, it's extraordinary, and maybe that culture is superior to ours in certain ways."

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#11. When people do something extraordinarily well, it's self-evident. It could be art. It could be a circus, whatever it is, where people are doing incredible things. It's self-evident. You know that it's beautiful. You know that it's very difficult, but it looks easy.

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#12. There (in the Soviet Union) it was a science. In order to be a coach, you had to study in school.

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#13. If you're a skilled player, you want to use your skill, not just hit the puck.

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#14. If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture.

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#15. People think, sports delivers a message. It's not just about winning and losing, although that's important. It's about other things, too. It demonstrates how it can say certain things about your culture and your society.

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