Gordie Howe
Gordie Howe
Gordon "Gordie" Howe, OCwas a Canadian professional ice hockey player. From 1946 to 1980, he played twenty-six seasons in the National Hockey Leagueand six seasons in the World Hockey Association; his first 25 seasons were spent with the Detroit Red Wings. Nicknamed "Mr. Hockey", Howe is considered the most complete player to ever play the game and one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time. A 23-time NHL All-Star, he held many of the sport's scoring records until...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionHockey Player
Date of Birth31 March 1928
CountryCanada
Some players may have had a drink too many the night before the game. I didn't have that problem because I was either too cheap, or didn't like the stuff.
Age has nothing to do with it. Heck, I played until I was 52 so I could play with my sons, Mark and Marty. In fact, at 52, I was the leading scorer on the team until Christmas before they benched me.
American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.
When I played in Detroit on a line with Sid Abel and Ted Lindsay, we got used to each other, but it took time. And the more we played together the better we knew where each of us was on the ice. Also, the players must have enough time to interact with each other.
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.
To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.
You've got to love what you'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.
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
The first time I met Wayne Gretzky... he never said anything back.
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.
If Colleen Howe had been a hockey player, she would have been a centremen. I can see her as a centreman because you can do what you want and go wherever you want to go.
You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.
I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there.