Plante Quotes

#1. Lots of guys don't like Jacques Plante, but he has been good to me. He's always by himself, you know, and how can you hate a guy when you never see him?

Bernie Parent

#2. It is a great privilege to meet inspiring leaders from different parts of the church - Catholic, Baptist, Salvation Army, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, and so many more - and discover that what unites us is infinitely greater than what divides us.

Nicky Gumbel

#3. All of the important acts of creation and destruction involve the issuance of words and the application of signature.

Bryant McGill

#4. Playing goal is like being shot at.

Jacques Plante

#5. My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be.

Alvin Ailey

#6. Only a goalie can appreciate what a goalie goes through.

Jacques Plante

#7. Le spine della rosa sono nacoste dal fiore: the thorns of the rose are hidden by the bloom.

Lynda La Plante

#8. If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again.

Jacques Plante

#9. My coworkers should understand that I need to go to a party tonight
and this is just as legitimate as their kids' soccer game
because going to a party is the only way I might actually meet someone and start a family so I can have a soccer game to go to one day!

Sheryl Sandberg

#10. Goaltending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yelled at you.

Jacques Plante

#11. Best of an island is once you get there - you can't go any farther ... you've come to the end of things ...

Agatha Christie

#12. It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?

Jacques Plante

#14. How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

Jacques Plante

#15. Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop a logical sequence of movements, a technique which is smooth, graceful and in rhythm with the rest of the game.

Jacques Plante

#16. You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put
wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em.

Dolly Parton

#17. You wrote in a poem, "I love your body," as if love was for you embodied in the senses, and yet more than the senses together, an enveloping sense itself sensuous, as if all the body made sense.

David Plante

#18. Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?

Jacques Plante

#19. You don't feel the need to talk all the time, do you," she said.
He smiled. "No."
"Most people don't know how to appreciate silence. They can't help talking."
"I talk, I just want to have something to say first.

Nicholas Sparks