Best Gordie Howe Quotes

#1. My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.

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#2. Rocket had that mean look on, every game we played. He was 100 percent hockey. He could hate with the best of them.

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#3. All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Mark Twain

#4. People say I'm henpecked. Well, let them say it.

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#5. Overall I can fairly safely say Bobby Orr impressed me more than anybody with his tremendous talents. In Bobby's first N.H.L. game he layed the lumber to Gordie's head. Later Howe retalliated and wanted to let the kid know he wasn't washed up yet.

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#6. You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

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#7. You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time.

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#8. Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

Terry Pratchett

#9. To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

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#10. One of the advantages, one of the special things, about playing in Detroit or Montreal is guys like Gordie Howe walk in the room. I didn't know he was here tonight, it was kind of a coincidence to get that assist on a night that he's here.

Steve Yzerman

#11. There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.

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#12. I'm not a minimalist, as I'm sure you've noticed.

Iris Apfel

#13. Cheap people are expensive.

Okisha Jackson

#14. My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

Stephen Root

#15. If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.

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#16. The universe is specifically tweaked to enable life on earth-a planet with scores of improbable and interdependent life-supporting conditions that make it a tiny oasis in a vast and hostile universe.

Norman Geisler

#17. Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

Russ Carnahan

#18. I'm fascinated by people's process. Everyone's process is a little bit different, and just to see the different paths that people take to get where they are is really interesting to me.

Chris Hardwick

#19. All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

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#20. The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness

Pope Benedict XVI

#21. American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.

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#22. You know what Gordie Howe got for a signing bonus? A team jacket!

Ed Lauter

#23. We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men.

Angelina Jolie

#24. My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.

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#25. I think it would be extremely helpful if people focused on the ideas being discussed here, rather than on calling you names - which is an easy way to ignore your ideas.

Sam Harris

#26. I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

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#27. The kid looks good in his first game.

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#28. You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

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#29. I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there.

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#30. It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

Aleister Crowley

#31. The first time I met Wayne Gretzky ... he never said anything back.

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