Explore Quotes by Bobby Orr

If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn't be doing that.

I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.

I don't spend a lot of time here in New York. I didn't realize there were so many Bruins fans in New York.

I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.

If you're going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I've never met, new friends.

The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents or a silly coach.

When you're young, you don't realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.

I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.

Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

Sidney Crosby, our greatest player, I don't want to see Sidney Crosby in the penalty box. I don't want to see Sidney Crosby hurt. I want to see Sidney Crosby play.

I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid, I couldn't wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.

I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.

The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.

So many of today's programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that's a big mistake.

Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow 'cause there's no one left to beat.

You never know how a single interaction with a person might affect their life, so you must constantly try to be at your best.

I'm really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.

You hear peewee coaches teaching the 'trap'. What the heck are we doing teaching the 'trap'? Let the kids go, let them have fun; that's how you improve.

Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.