Peter Forsberg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.
-- Peter Forsberg

#Growing Up #Hockey #Play
Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.
-- Peter Forsberg

#Retirement #Quitting #Sour
We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.
-- Peter Forsberg

#Thinking #Practice #Guy
It's been a good hockey life for me anyway.
-- Peter Forsberg

#Hockey
I wouldn't accept losing as a team, wouldn't accept losing as my team. It's like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot.
-- Peter Forsberg

#Team #War #Thinking
It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in.
-- Peter Forsberg

#Sports #Games #Goal
It's not only hockey, it's every sport. You know, it's a big event.
-- Peter Forsberg

#Sports #Hockey #Events
Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.
-- Peter Forsberg

#Sports #Golf #Winter

I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.
Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.
We brought him [Raffi Torres] in because he was an emotional, physical player. He's had nothing but a great attitude and a great work ethic with us all year long. He comes to play, prepares himself real well. We need him to play the way he does. You know, he's a little bit sometimes outside the box, but you've got to let him be who he is.
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.
I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.
My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.
The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.

Peter Forsberg famous quotes

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