"Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player." "I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they put the guy who can't skate, right? Just like in baseball when they put the worst player at catcher."

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Source : Steve Hamilton (2007). “Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery”, p.119, Macmillan

Steve Hamilton

#Baseball Quotes #Hockey Quotes #Player Quotes

“Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls.”
“I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.”
“I love to produce a track and then play it for the crowd; that's the biggest kick for me!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.”
“Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage indifference, fear, double standards, subversion, bad economy, a twisted definition of 'public' itself, the whole Weltanschauung - an entire range of emotions and attitudes is exposed.”
“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”
“Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.”
“Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.”

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