"When I looked into the story of Soviet hockey and its players, I realized that it has nothing to do with hockey. It was a larger story using hockey as a window into the story of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian people, with friendships and betrayals, paranoia and oppression, and the meaning of sports to people and nations around the world, and how sports was used as a political tool."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Gabe Polsky

#Sports Quotes #Betrayal Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.”
“Having ones image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once youve let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.”
“You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.”
“God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.”
“Let go the things of which you are in doubt for the things in which there is no doubt.”
“It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.”

Source : Marcel Proust (2015). “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time”, p.526, Yale University Press
“I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.”
“I feel very confident with the way I look. But I felt just as confident the way I looked before. I've always been confident with who I am.”

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