45 Quotes by Gordie Howe

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you’re the one talking.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose.

People say I’m henpecked. Well, let them say it.

My philosophy is never start talking about ‘if,’ ‘and,’ ‘but’ or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.

There’s always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That’s why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That’s what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.