Marcel Dionne famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.
-- Marcel Dionne

#Regret #Hockey #Winning
I had an opportunity many, many times to go to the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner. Jerry Buss asked me many times and you know what, looking back that was stupid of me not going there.
-- Marcel Dionne

#Stupid #Opportunity #Playboy
I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.
-- Marcel Dionne

#Games #Watches #Done
I told (Anze) Kopitar 'You aren't touching the puck enough. I don't like your breakout.' I think Kopitar can make magic with the puck
-- Marcel Dionne

#Thinking #Touching #Magic
I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them.
-- Marcel Dionne

#Country #Player #League
The greatest flight I've ever flown was coming home.
-- Marcel Dionne

#Home #Flight #Coming Home

One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small, daily joys. The bright sunshine on the breakfast table; the smell of the air at dusk; the sound of the clock ticking; the light rains that start gently after midnight; the hour when the family come home; Sunday-evening tea before the fire! I have never missed one moment of beauty, not even taken it for granted. Spring, summer, autumn, or winter. I wish I had failed as little in other ways.
I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.
Hockey is my life, you know. If I do not play hockey, I do not know what I do.
Maybe's he's just jealous I have hair.
Girls, where are you? I can't find you.
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal criticâ€”that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
Della was my go all in. She was my winning hand. You can't play when you go all in and lose. I'm out." "No, you're not. This hand ain't over yet," Rush said.
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.

Marcel Dionne famous quotes

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