Jim McKenny famous quotes

Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.
-- Jim McKenny

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I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.

Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.

If I'm playing hockey, I want to win all the (trophies) I can.

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

A well begun is half ended.

The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.