Gordie Howe

“All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.”

“My philosophy is never start a fight, but always finish it.”

“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.”

“If you play a sport, be a sport.”

“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.”

“I'm really just a lucky old farm boy.”

“Hockey is a man's game. The team with the most real men on it wins.”

“That's the great thing about hockey: you can't be perfect. In my career, I had a lot of bad games. We lost a lot of games. We lost the Stanley Cup.”

“My mother and father were perfect role models. All they did was live the golden rule. And they had a sense of humor. They were good people. And that's all I've ever wanted to be.”

“There is all this juice and all this stuff. I have a lot of friends who are dentists. I think it is a dental conspiracy.”

“You've got to be a little bit different, a little bit crazy, to be a goalie.”

“The only thing I'm afraid of is being alone.”