Quotes & Sayings About Fighting In The Nhl

The fighting in the NHL, especially, and, I think, in some of the minor leagues, it's usually the loudest and the most excited the crowd gets during the entire the game. — John Branch

He ploughs the waves, sows the sand, and hopes to gather the wind in a net, who places his hopes in the heart of a woman. — Jacopo Sannazaro

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. — Eric Clapton

I sort of thought that maybe people had to talk that way, sort of saying the same things over and over because that way they can get along together without thinking." She stopped and thought. Why I was so worried," she said, "was because if people didn't say those damn things over and over, then they wouldn't talk to each other at all. — Shirley Jackson

Since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property. — Michel De Montaigne

Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds. — Donald Stewart Cherry

That's right, Mitt Romney took on Evander Holyfield in a boxing match for charity, and it was a pretty one-sided fight. But it was still not the worst boxing match we've seen this month. This weekend Vladimir Putin played in an exhibition hockey game with some former NHL players and scored eight goals. Even Evander Holyfield and Mitt Romney said, 'That looks fake.' — Jimmy Fallon

The founding fathers, whose infinite wisdom gave us a Constitution and form of government well nigh perfect, located the seat of that government in a stinking, steaming swamp. — Mark Leibovich

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

I had a few fights last year, but I need to take boxing lessons. I need to, because in the NHL it's required. — Maxim Kuznetsov

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing. — George MacDonald

PETER: But you're 'Alice'.
ALICE: As you're 'Peter' ... But after all, what's in a name?
PETER: What isn't?
She understands. — John Logan

I feel like when I reach my 500-million-dollar goal, then no other woman in rap will ever feel like they can't do what these men have done — Nicki Minaj

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either. — Agnes Obel

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew. — Norman Foster

I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that's been burned. — Christina Aguilera