Pat LaFontaine famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you've only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It'll seem like forever.
-- Pat LaFontaine

#Hockey #Forever #One Day
Every time you sustain a head injury, the risk gets higher and higher. I always said that if there ever was a point where the risk was more than minimal, I would stop playing.
-- Pat LaFontaine

#Nhl #Risk #Getting High
I've been fortunate. I've had no residual effects whatsoever. I got out just in time.
-- Pat LaFontaine

#Nhl #Concussions #Residual
You can't abuse your body and you need to work hard on your weaknesses. Everyone likes to focus on the things they are good at. But when you focus on the things you are weak at, it makes you a much better athlete.
-- Pat LaFontaine

#Hard Work #Athlete #Focus
It is an immense privilege to be able to play in the NHL. I was very blessed and a lot of things went my way to be able to make it.
-- Pat LaFontaine

#Blessed #Nhl #Play
I have a brother who practiced every bit as much as I did, but he never made pro. In order to make it as a pro you have to develop your God-given skills.
-- Pat LaFontaine

#Brother #Order #Skills

The first thing I noticed about him was that he was born the same year I was drafted. ... That's a pretty scary thought.
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.
If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.
I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble.
I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.

Pat LaFontaine famous quotes

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