{"id":2398,"date":"2021-06-29T20:15:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T00:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2021-06-30T18:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T22:58:36","slug":"on-hockey-from-the-greats-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=2398","title":{"rendered":"On Hockey &#8211; from the Greats of the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pro_302_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2399 size-full\" title=\"pro_302_2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pro_302_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pro_302_2.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pro_302_2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Forget about style; worry about results. \u2013 Bobby Orr<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Every day is a great day for hockey. &#8211; Mario Lemieux<\/li>\n<li>Hockey is a tough game. \u2013 Bobby Orr<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ve got to love what you&#8217;re doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time. \u2013 Gordie Howe<\/li>\n<li>When you&#8217;re on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick. \u2013 Steve Yzerman<\/li>\n<li>We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. &#8211; Bobby Clarke<\/li>\n<li>Hockey is a game of one-on-one battles. \u2013 Mark Messier<\/li>\n<li>In Canada, you&#8217;re not a hockey player until you&#8217;ve lost some teeth. &#8211; Andy Bathgate<\/li>\n<li>I played with a lot of great players before. They&#8217;re all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well. \u2013 Mark Messier<\/li>\n<li>The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it. \u2013 Wayne Gretzky<\/li>\n<li>My father used to tell me the game is not privileged to have you, you\u2019re privileged to have hockey. \u2013 Paul Coffey<\/li>\n<li>Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire. \u2013 Fred Shero<\/li>\n<li>How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? \u2013 Jacques Plante<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not dumb enough to be a goalie. &#8211; Brett Hull<\/li>\n<li>I always tell Bobby he was up in the air so long that I had had time to shower and change before he hit the ice. &#8211; Glen Hall (on letting in The Goal by Bobby Orr)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Chris George provides reliable PR &amp; GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? Call 613-983-0801 @<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget about style; worry about results. \u2013 Bobby Orr Every day is a great day for hockey. &#8211; Mario Lemieux Hockey is a tough game. \u2013 Bobby Orr You&#8217;ve got to love what you&#8217;re doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11400,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions\/11400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}