Quotes
Authors
Ken Dryden

"The model for an NHL without fighting is right there in front of us. The [playoffs are] the time of year that fans love best; when the best hockey is played... [The] enforcers don't play. Even mini-enforcers... remain on the bench. Teams and coaches can't afford anything stupid and unpredictable... With no one to fight back for them, players go harder into the corners, more determinedly to the front of the net. If they want to fire up the crowd and their teammates, they have to do it themselves. And in the playoffs, they do."

-- Ken Dryden

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“Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.”
“I hate to say stuff like this because everyone dreams about playing The Opry, everyone dreams about playing Gruene Hall, but I've always tried to not concentrate too hard on where I want to go because I know if I put too much stock into it, it would be pretty disappointing if I never got there.”
“Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.”
“We are surrounded by those in need of our attention, our encouragement, our support, our comfort, our kindness... We are the Lordâ€™s hands here upon the earth, with the mandate to serve and to lift His children. He is dependent upon each of us”
“I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.”
“I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.”
“it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.”
“The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from,”

Source : "Fictional character: Frank Lucas". "American Gangster", 2007.

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