"I guess the prime example is in North America there's a thing where if there's no opportunity to move forward with the puck, then a [hockey] player is told to dump the puck into the other zone. Just give up the puck and dump it in. Give it to the other team. And to the Soviet mentality in coaching, it just doesn't make any sense. If you're a skilled player, why are you going to give the puck away to the other team? Just give it away, right?"

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Source : Source: collider.com

Gabe Polsky

#Giving Up Quotes #Team Quotes #Moving Quotes

“A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.”

Source : John Townsend Trowbridge (1903). “My Own Story: With Recollection of Noted Persons”
“Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.”
“If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?”

Source : "Mathematical Mysteries: The Beauty and Magic of Numbers". Book by Calvin C. Clawson, p. 258, 1999.
“Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad phenotypic manifestations. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and functions.”
“It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.”
“I bet she woke up with her hair looking like something out of a Pantene commercial while little bluebirds circled around her head, and raccoons brought her breakfast or something.”
“... you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...”

Source : Neal Stephenson (2010). “Anathem”, p.73, Atlantic Books Ltd
“He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.”

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