Quotes About Gordie Howe

#1. 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

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

Ed Lauter

#3. Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

Jacqueline Carey

#4. 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

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

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#6. 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

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

Gordie Howe

#8. By the light of your stars, heal me.

Joyce Rupp

#9. 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

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

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#11. Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.

Sylvia Plath

#12. 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

#13. It took two years to make,' retorted the Time Traveller

H.G.Wells

#14. Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world.

Tom Hodgkinson

#15. 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

#16. you wanted saving didn't you?

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. You weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you were born with an entire cutlery drawer in there!

Jessica Lemmon

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

Gordie Howe

#19. Un viaggiatore americano ha scritto: "Italy is the land of human nature".

Beppe Severgnini

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

Gordie Howe

#21. Girl gets; girl gets; girl gets. Not that she is granted things but that things keep happening to her, until they don't - until she starts doing unto others as they have done, hurting everyone who ever hurt her, moving the world with her mind, conducting its objects like an orchestra.

Leslie Jamison

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

Gordie Howe

#23. Innocence isn't something we lose, but realise we don't need.

Chloe Thurlow

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

Gordie Howe

#25. 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.

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

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#27. 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.

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#28. With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.

Kate Bernheimer

#29. The sun pours out like wine.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

#30. 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

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

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