Top 100 Orr Quotes
#1. Orr was one of the homeliest freaks Yossarian had ever encountered, and one of the most attractive.
Joseph Heller
#2. Orr is the greatest young hockey player that's come along since I've been here.
Bobby Hull
#3. Bobby Orr had lots of moves and speed. You had to be careful or he would make you look like a fool. Jacques was impresed how quickly he caught up to Yvan Cournoyer one night when the Habs were playing the Bruins. I didn't think the kid had that kind of speed.
Jacques Lemaire
#4. There's stars, superstars, and then there's Bobby Orr.
Serge Savard
#5. I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.
Mike Weir
#6. I believe Bobby Orr had the greatest impact of any player to come along in my lifetime. He earned his place in hockey history by single handedly changing the game from the style played in my day. In my mind there can be no greater legacy.
Jean Beliveau
#7. There was no established procedure for evasive action. All you needed was fear, and Yossarian had plenty of that, more fear than Orr or Hungry Joe, more fear even than Dunbar, who had resigned himself submissively to the idea that he must die someday
Joseph Heller
#9. Mr. Orr: Lord of a thousand worlds am I, And I reign since time began; And night and day, in cyclic sway, Shall pass while their deeds I scan. Yet time shall cease, ere I find release, For I am the Soul of Man.
William Walker Atkinson
#10. I had just made this album called 'Mind Blow,' a CD-R release on Spirit of Orr. This was in 2003. Quite a few of the songs from 'Was Dead' were actually on that.
King Tuff
#11. I watched Gretzky, I watched Lemieux. Maybe it's the time when you're playing, but for a kid coming into the league, you play the Boston Bruins and you just watched Bobby Orr.
Marcel Dionne
#12. If I can be half the hockey player that Bobby Orr was, I'll be happy.
Ray Bourque
#13. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't,
but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. That's some catch, that catch-22.
Joseph Heller
#15. Bobby Orr was a star when they played the National Anthem in his first game.
Harry Sinden
#16. Orr had a tendency to assume that people knew what they were doing, perhaps because he generally assumed that he did not.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#17. To be on the same team with Orr was great because when I turned pro, nobody had more charisma.
Marcel Dionne
#18. Milt was one of the men who discovered Bobby Orr. He once said that if a player comes along who is better then Bobby Orr, may the Good Lord let me be alive to see him because he is going to be one hell of a player to watch. Enough said.
Milt Schmidt
#19. Orr was not a fast reasoner. In fact, he was not a reasoner. He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of imagination, but slogging, plodding along on the heavy ground of existence.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#20. Rallick followed this by driving his other knife into Orr's chest.
Steven Erikson
#21. I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained Bobby Orr, but you never stopped him. When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck, it was a good play.
Larry Robinson
#22. Orr's gods were nameless and unenvious, asking neither worship nor obedience.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#24. 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
#25. George Orr stayed in Portland because he had always lived there and because he had no reason to believe that life anywhere else would be better, or different.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#26. An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don't want to. There is no such thing as a block of time to write. You have to carve time from a busy day. Elaine L. Orr
Elaine Orr
#27. She acts like she don't like you"
"She doesn't like anyone"
"She likes Capitan Black", Orr reminded.
"That's because he treats her like dirt. Anyone can get a girl that way
Joseph Heller
#29. The planetary emergency unfolding around us is, first and foremost ... a crisis of thought, values, perceptions, ideas and judgments. In other words, it is a crisis of mind, which makes it a crisis of those institutions which purport to improve minds.
David W. Orr
#30. One word can change your life forever.
I love you
I hate you
Think about it
Alan Macmillan Orr
#31. The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.
Bobby Orr
#32. I am always in the right place at the right time successfully engaged in the right activity whether I know it or not.
Leonard Orr
#33. Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.
Leonard Orr
#34. The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.
Emma Restall Orr
#35. Sidney Crosby, our greatest player, I don't want to see Sidney Crosby in the penalty box. I don't want to see Sidney Crosby hurt. I want to see Sidney Crosby play.
Bobby Orr
#36. If you submit to the ocean, you drown. If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded. You learn how to live with the ocean. You learn how to float, to swim, to be a part of it, to be with it. That is the nature of the Pagan's relationship with nature.
Emma Restall Orr
#37. The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
John Boyd Orr
#38. The way the word sinks
into the deep snow of the page
Gregory Orr
#39. Where would I be if not for your wild heart?
I ask this not from love, but selfishly -
how could I live? How could I make my art?
Gregory Orr
#40. You never know how a single interaction with a person might affect their life, so you must constantly try to be at your best.
Bobby Orr
#42. The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value.
Leonard Orr
#43. We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.
Bobby Orr
#44. Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
Bobby Orr
#45. I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.
Bobby Orr
#46. Death is a grave mistake! Physical immortality takes forever. It is the
only cause that you can't die for.
Leonard Orr
#47. If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
John Boyd Orr
#48. I'm really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.
Bobby Orr
#49. For Trisha
The truth's in myth not fact,
a story fragment or an act
that lasts and stands for all:
how bees made honey in a skull.
Gregory Orr
#50. The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water.
Leonard Orr
#51. Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.
Bobby Orr
#52. God Who delivers us from the guilt of sin through faith in Jesus Christ, is able to deliver the believer from the power of sin as well.
J. Edwin Orr
#53. On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he's the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.
Bobby Orr
#54. I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.
Bobby Orr
#55. There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.
John Boyd Orr
#56. The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness.
Leonard D. Orr
#57. We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.
Bobby Orr
#58. Journey of the Universe is eloquent, accessible, and powerful, and conveys a sense of wonder ranging from the cosmos to the microcosm
in itself a considerable achievement. This is one of the most compelling and inspiring works I've read in a long time.
David W. Orr
#59. Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result.
J. Edwin Orr
#60. I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around.
Leonard Orr
#61. The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.
David W. Orr
#62. I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.
Bobby Orr
#63. Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.
Bobby Orr
#64. Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
John Boyd Orr
#65. Staying out of the penalty box will really help.
Bobby Orr
#66. Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.
Leonard Orr
#67. Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.
Carl Orr
#68. I have found that the best cure for self pity is to do something to help someone else.
Carl Orr
#69. The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
John Boyd Orr
#70. The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.
Bobby Orr
#71. A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.
David W. Orr
#72. That's crudely put, but
If we're not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?
Gregory Orr
#73. Those wise ones who see that the consciousness within them is the same consciousness within all beings, attain peace. -THE KATHA UPANISHAD
Gabrielle Orr
#74. I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.
Leonard Orr
#75. The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.
Bobby Orr
#76. Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
John Boyd Orr
#77. There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.
Bobby Orr
#78. Warm water rebirthing has a tendency to regress people to birth memories and prenatal states of consciousness.
Leonard Orr
#79. If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.
Bobby Orr
#80. Whenever God is ready to do something new with His people, He always sets them to praying.
J. Edwin Orr
#81. The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.
Leonard Orr
#82. I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars.
Benjamin Orr
#83. No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer.
J. Edwin Orr
#84. I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.
Leonard Orr
#85. I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid, I couldn't wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.
Bobby Orr
#86. Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.
John Boyd Orr
#87. History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.
J. Edwin Orr
#88. It makes far better sense to reshape ourselves to fit a finite planet than to attempt to reshape the planet to fit our infinite wants
David Orr
#89. Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.
John Boyd Orr
#90. I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.
Gregory Orr
#91. Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow 'cause there's no one left to beat.
Bobby Orr
#92. And yet I swear
I love this earth
that scars and scalds,
that burns my feet.
And even hell is holy.
Gregory Orr
#93. If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.
Bobby Orr
#94. I know you are worried. You are right to be so, Tah-li, but life does not always allow us to walk on trails made by others. Sometimes we have to be the ones to clear the way.
Krystal Orr
#95. Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
John Boyd Orr
#96. Forget about style; worry about results.
Bobby Orr
#97. Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.
Leonard Orr
#98. All that is obvious detracts completely from all that is not.
Emma Restall Orr
#99. I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.
Leonard Orr
#100. Another way of saying "put it in the Book" would be that each poem we write pops up in the city of poetry, where anyone can visit it. Just as we visit the poems written before us. Go to Dickinson's house, or Li Po's or whomever we think has something to say to us that might help or be beautiful.
Gregory Orr
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