Top 15 Adam Oates Quotes
#1. If something doesn't look right, throw some glitter on it.
Adam Lambert
#2. A lot of people can have a lot of different influences, everyone can be compared in some way to someone whether they are from 60 years ago or more recent.
Leona Lewis
#3. I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.
Adam Oates
#4. Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
Adam Oates
#5. I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
Adam Oates
#6. I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.
Adam Oates
#7. The most remarkable change in the moral history of mankind has been the rise - and occasionally the application - of the view that all people, and not just one's own kind, are entitled to fair treatment.
James Q. Wilson
#8. You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
Adam Oates
#9. I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#10. I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.
Adam Oates
#11. I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.
Adam Oates
#12. Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
Adam Oates
#13. In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white drawing style mascot portrait called 'Johnny.' I made a poster for it and sent it around the world to corporate art departments.
John Van Hamersveld
#14. Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
Adam Oates
#15. In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?
Jorge Luis Borges
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