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"Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids."
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"If I was to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing."
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"You might say I was a little bit more outspoken... I spoke my mind."
Mind
"What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did."
People
"All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching."
Life
"Now we're doing it for different reasons. We're doing it to bring back the families to the game, people who love the game, and make it an affordable night's entertainment."
Love
"Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done."
Adversity
"First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities."
Community
"Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself."
People
"I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'"
People
"My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game."
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"Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land."
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"Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner."
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"Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it."
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"You are only as good as the coach thinks you are."
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"Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries."
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"A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you."
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"Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck."
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"But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in."
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"There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun."
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"When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement."
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