Hockey's a Funny Game...

"Hockey’s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It’s not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself."

  -Paul Coffey

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"Ability is what you’re capable of doing.

Motivation determines what you do.

Attitude determines how well you do it."

 – Lou Holtz

"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. "

- Gordie Howe

Gordie Howe played "what he called 'religious hockey': it's better to give than to receive, " wrote Trent Frayne of Maclean's. The photo above demonstrates exactly what he means.

THE GOAL

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Team Canada's Yvon Cournoyer (12) hugs Paul Henderson after Henderson scored the winning goal in the Canada-Soviet Union hockey series in Moscow, Sept. 28, 1972.

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club wont be worth a dime."

 – Babe Ruth

"A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. "

– Ara Parasheghian

"The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it."

 – Wayne Gretzky

"miracle on ice"