10-30-2009, 01:18 PM
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Inspiring Quotes
We all came to CalgaryPuck for the same reason, the Calgary Flames. However, a lot of the regular posters here have stuck around for what I feel is a very different reason; the people in this community keep them here.
I've read so many inspiring stories on this site and some posters here without knowing it have changed the way I think about certain aspects of life.
I'd just like to have a place for people to share things they've seen or read, either on this site or not, that have impacted them in some meaningful way. It can be sports-related, or not.
I'd prefer if the quotes weren't just quick humorous one-liners, although those can be great too, but I am hoping for something a little more insightful in this thread.
As for me, this post by firebug was one of the most touching things I've ever read, anywhere.
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10-30-2009, 01:28 PM
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Norm!
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Join the Army, see the world, meet interesting people - and kill them. ~Pacifist Badge, 1978
The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other die for his. ~George Patton
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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10-30-2009, 01:48 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Removed by Mod
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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." Oscar Wilde
"Believe you can, believe you can't; either way, you're right." Henry Ford
Ichiro On playing in Cleveland: "To tell the truth, I'm not excited to go to Cleveland, but we have to. If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying."
I think these sum it up.
Have fun, Work hard, Have integrity.
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10-30-2009, 01:54 PM
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First Line Centre
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It looks like this thread is filled with good intention and integrity, thus is not the place for off colour, one liners. I better stay out and limit my contribution to this.
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10-30-2009, 01:55 PM
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From the immortal Bill Pullman and the historically and scientifically accurate Independence Day...
"Good morning. In less than one hour planes from here and all around the world will launch the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind...
Mankind. The word has new meaning for all of us now. We are reminded not of our petty differences but of our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today, July the Fourth, we will once again fight for our freedom. Not from tyranny, persecution or oppression. But from annihilation.
We're fighting for our right to live, to exist. From this day on, the fourth day of July will no longer be remembered as an American holiday but as the day that all of mankind declared we will not go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a fight. We're going to live on. We're going to survive...Today is our Independence Day! "
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10-30-2009, 02:03 PM
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"Time is life. It is irreversible and irreplaceable. To waste your time is to waste your life, but to master your time is to master your life and make the most of it."
-- Alan Lakein
Weak people cannot be sincere
-- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Find out what you would die for and live for it
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"A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him."
-- Elmer G. Letterman
You have to make a path for good luck to walk on
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Every human interaction is a time to learn or to teach
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TNT : Today not tomorrow
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The reason they call money dough is because you have to work hard to make it.
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You never learn anything when your mouth is open
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Conformists never do well in business
--Thomas Edison
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take a chance
--Ronald Reagan
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job
--Jim Rohn?
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10-30-2009, 02:08 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Calgary, AB
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What the *$&^, you gonna live forever?
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10-30-2009, 02:09 PM
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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"We can do whatever we want" - D. Sutter
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10-30-2009, 02:11 PM
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Scoring Winger
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I think this was a quote by Jim Varney.
"Life's just a bus stop to somewhere infinitely better."
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10-30-2009, 02:16 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: the dark side of Sesame Street
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"When you're walking through Hell, KEEP WALKING!"
- Winston Churchill
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"If Javex is your muse…then dive in buddy"
- Surferguy
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10-30-2009, 02:19 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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"A man's only as old as the woman he feels." -- Groucho Marx
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Turn up the good, turn down the suck!
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10-30-2009, 02:19 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Live your life how you want to be seen, not how others want to see you. Grandpa MYK 72 hours before he died of cancer.
Some other stuff but mostly religious and not kosher with this board.
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Rudy was the only hope in 08
2011 Election: Cons 40% - Nanos 38% Ekos 34%
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10-30-2009, 02:20 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: the dark side of Sesame Street
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(this one works best if you know the context; he had terminal cancer when he said it):
"Enjoy every sandwich"
- Warren Zevon
" 'C' is for 'cookie', that's good enough for me"
- Cookie Monster
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"If Javex is your muse…then dive in buddy"
- Surferguy
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10-30-2009, 02:20 PM
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My favorite EPL team Tottenham has a legendary manager named Bill Nicholson who had a couple classics:
"It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low. And we of Spurs have set our sights very high, so high in fact that even failure will have in it an echo of glory."
"Any player coming to Spurs whether he's a big signing or just a ground staff boy must be dedicated to the game and to the club. He must be prepared to work at his game. He must never be satisfied with his last performance, and he must hate losing."
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10-30-2009, 02:25 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Calgary
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Mr. Lahey: Who in this park, or even in the whole world, doesn't have problems? Who doesn't have a drink too many times once in a while and maybe even winds up passed out in their own driveway, pissing themselves? Who doesn't drink too much sometimes or who doesn't have a puff from time to time? And who doesn't have problems with the people they love? This is our home. This is our community.
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10-30-2009, 02:29 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: the dark side of Sesame Street
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Komskies
Mr. Lahey: Who in this park, or even in the whole world, doesn't have problems? Who doesn't have a drink too many times once in a while and maybe even winds up passed out in their own driveway, pissing themselves? Who doesn't drink too much sometimes or who doesn't have a puff from time to time? And who doesn't have problems with the people they love? This is our home. This is our community.
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the wisdom of Jim Lahey could fill volumes
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10-30-2009, 02:30 PM
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyler
What the *$&^, you gonna live forever?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_2mWhfOhGU 
BTW : I hear that Liam is at it again. Thought that was the end of em.
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10-30-2009, 02:53 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Vancouver, BC
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One of the most inspirational quotes I have found for my self, which I stumbled upon in the movie The Art of Travel...
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
This quote alone has convinced me to do things I would have not thought of doing, nor considered doing.
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10-30-2009, 03:04 PM
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"Shut up and drink"
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