Quotes About Bobby Hull

#1. In Detroit, Ned [Harkness] kept talking about a new concept, and when I'd ask him what he meant he never gave me the right answer. Now, take Bobby Hull. Give him a puck, a stick and a pair of skates and put him on your team. Do you need a new concept?

Frank Mahovlich

#2. Ego cannot bring anything extraordinary into the world; the extraordinary comes only through egolessness. And so is the case with the musician and the poet and the dancer. So is the case with everybody.

Rajneesh

#3. Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S ... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.

Bobby Hull

#4. My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.

Bobby Hull

#5. Now we're doing it for different reasons. We're doing it to bring back the families to the game, people who love the game, and make it an affordable night's entertainment.

Bobby Hull

#6. Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

Bobby Hull

#7. Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself.

Bobby Hull

#8. Skid marks all across my brain, cause you're leaving me with so much pain. I was pretty sure that you could be the one, now it is evident that it was hit and run.

Bootsy Collins

#9. Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

Bobby Hull

#10. If I told you that the big contract had nothing to do with my signing, Id be lying. It made the future secure for my family.

Bobby Hull

#11. I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever going to do anything and step out of the shadow of your own dad - not only in hockey, but in life itself - you're going to have to learn you're Brett and not 'Bobby's son.'

Brett Hull

#12. I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.

Bobby Hull

#13. A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

Nathan Myhrvold

#14. I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.

Zoe Sugg

#15. Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the sweater to use instead.
I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face.
It was almost like he was there.

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. If I was to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing.

Bobby Hull

#17. My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.

Bobby Hull

#18. I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

Bobby Hull

#19. Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby.

Bobby Hull

#20. I hope I can do a better job than Mr. Bettman.

Bobby Hull

#21. I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?

Madeleine M. Kunin

#22. Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism
and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to
dehumanize a large group of people, to deny
their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

Coretta Scott King

#23. You might say I was a little bit more outspoken ... I spoke my mind.

Bobby Hull

#24. First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.

Bobby Hull

#25. What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and ... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.

Bobby Hull

#26. Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.

Brett Hull

#27. I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

Tom Wilson

#28. Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids.

Bobby Hull

#29. I wouldn't urinate in his ear if his brain was on fire!

Bobby Hull

#30. When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be ...

Bobby Hull

#31. I think for kids it's the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.

Bobby Hull

#32. Orr is the greatest young hockey player that's come along since I've been here.

Bobby Hull

#33. We have to get families back in the game, get back where Saturday night, everything stops. A case of beer comes out and a bottle of rye and anyone who comes to the house, they better want to watch hockey.

Bobby Hull

#34. All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.

Bobby Hull