Defenseman Quotes

#1. I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?
Look at your eyes. They are small,
but they see enormous things.

Rumi

#2. Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

Jose Raul Capablanca

#3. I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.

Bobby Orr

#4. Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal ... the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#5. If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Quincy Jones

#6. The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where are they.

Plutarch

#7. Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

Nick Murray

#8. A defenseman passed the puck to the right forward, and he flipped, fell on his face, the defenseman took over the puck, dived and scored.

J.M.K. Walkow

#9. When Bobby came into the league he was a rushing defenseman, a goal scorer and a point getter. He just opened the game up to more offence and that's the way the game is played now.

Johnny Bucyk

#10. He was so dominant. Bobby was the greatest defenseman who ever played the game as far as I'm concerned. I believe in my heart he changed the face of the game.

Phil Esposito

#11. Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.

Rumi

#12. Why should a man intentionally live his life with one kind of anxiety followed by another?

Imbolo Mbue

#13. Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

Steve Cropper

#14. We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Tony Robbins

#15. Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

John Buchan

#16. If we are not represented, we are slaves.

James Otis

#17. I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

Robert Crumb

#18. Gentlemen," returned Mr. Micawber, "do with me as you will! I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants- I beg your pardon; I should have said the elements.

Charles Dickens