Gordie Howe Quotes

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All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
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Gordie Howe
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As Peggy Fleming, the former Olympic champion figure skater, said, the most important thing is to love your sport. Never compete just to please someone else. β€œYou’ve got to love what you’re doing,” hockey great Gordie Howe said. β€œIf you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains.
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Gary Mack (Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence)
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You never learn anything if you're the one talking
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Gordie Howe (Mr. Hockey: My Story)
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It all began the previous summer, when Ted Lindsay visited Marquette Branch Prison as part of a promotional tour with GM Jack Adams. The star winger got along well with the prison’s inmates, and the warden issued an invitation: Come back in the winter for a friendly game. Adams accepted, and on February 2, 1954, the Red Wings arrived to face a pickup team of convicts, surrounded by guard towers and razor wire. Needless to say, there was significant concern over the safety of those involved, and the potential for acts of serious violence. But once the inmates were assured that Gordie Howe would try to keep his elbows down, the game went ahead as scheduled.
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Sean McIndoe (The "Down Goes Brown" History of the NHL: The World's Most Beautiful Sport, the World's Most Ridiculous League)
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Bruce, on the other hand, was sometimes too clever for his own good. He was a tremendous influence on me, teaching me all about sports, Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Johnny Unitas and Gordie Howe.
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Bret Hart (Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling)
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Gordie Howe (Mr. Hockey: My Story)