Gordie's Quotes

#1. 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.

Gordie Howe

#2. 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.

Gordie Howe

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

Gordie Howe

#4. 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.

Gordie Howe

#5. I'll see you.'
He grinned. 'Not if i see you first.

Stephen King

#6. 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.

Gordie Howe

#7. 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

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

Gordie Howe

#9. If we have friends we should look only for the best in them and give them the best that is in us, don't you think?

L.M. Montgomery

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

Gordie Howe

#11. Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

Leonard Cohen

#12. Chris: How do you know if a Frenchman has been in your backyard?
Teddy: Hey, I'm French, okay?
Chris: Your garbage cans are empty and your dog's pregnant.
[Chris and Gordie laugh]
Teddy: Didn't I just say I was French?

Stephen King

#13. If she loves you back, no woman is going to complain about the hour if a man calls her to proclaim his undying love.

Linda Kage

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

Gordie Howe

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

Gordie Howe

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

Gordie Howe

#17. Teddy, Vern, Chris: I don't shut up. I grow up. And when I look at you, I throw up. Aghhh!
Gordie: And then your mom goes around the corner and she licks it up.

Stephen King

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

Gordie Howe

#19. Chris: I'm never gonna get out of this town am I, Gordie?
Gordie: You can do anything you want, man.
Chris: Yeah, sure. Give me some skin.
Gordie: I'll see ya.
Chris: Not if I see you first.

Stephen King

#20. Tell me that we'll get through tomorrow. Tell me that we'll survive the war. Tell me - " She swallowed hard. "Tell me that even if I lead us all to ruin, we'll burn in hell together.

Sarah J. Maas

#21. Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don't you know that? [ ... ] Your friends do. They're like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can't save them. You can only drown with them.

Stephen King

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

Ed Lauter

#23. Love the player for who they are, not for what they can do for you. Kids see through the coach whose only concern is for himself.

Gordie Gillespie

#24. Gordie: Do you think I'm weird?
Chris: Definitely.
Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird?
Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird

Stephen King

#25. Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect.

Gordie Gillespie

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

Gordie Howe

#27. Teach positively, never abuse kids in the teaching process. I believe it is cowardly to teach in a negative way, to insult players, or challenge their manhood.

Gordie Gillespie

#28. 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.

Gordie Howe

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

Gordie Howe

#30. 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.

Gordie Howe

#31. 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.

Gordie Howe

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

Gordie Howe

#33. I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself.

Peter Smithers