"I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age."
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"Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?"
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"Is that a beard, or is Niedermayer eating a muskrat?"
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"If I'd known it was going to take 25 years, I'd have started earlier."
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"Coaches are like ducks. Calm on top, but paddling underneath. Believe me, there's a lot of leg movement."
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"We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'"
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"We talk about mental toughness all the time. That's the biggest thing good teams have, that they can overcome adversity."
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"They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them."
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"It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants."
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"... I just want to remind the owners and the players: you guys make money because you have a whole bunch of fans out there who are working really hard. They buy tickets. They're watching on TV. Ya'll should be able to figure this out. Get this done."
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"But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it."
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"Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it."
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"Hockey,' mused Marcus. 'The sport of kings."
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"I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed."
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"Over the weekend, Vladimir Putin scored eight goals during a hockey game. It happened just after he had the goalie executed."
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"I see you finally got a number to match your IQ."
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"Wrapping Christmas presents is tough. Even peeling a Mandarin orange is tough. I have to get my kids to help me."
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"Bert's wallet is like an onion. Any time he opens it, he starts crying."
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"Just use the same quotes. It's the same story."
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"Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet."
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