Growing Quote by Gordie Howe Download Open image “It's been said that, while growing up, I ate meals with my skates on. It's true.” — Gordie Howe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Growing Growing up Said True Up
During my formative years, I probably spent more time in skates than I did shoes. — Johnny Gaudreau Copy Share Image
I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up in Montana… — Jeff Ament Copy Share Image
My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it. — Bonnie Blair Copy Share Image
Yeah, so my dad was a skater back in his teenage days, and he used to skate pools and bowls and stuff and vert… — Nyjah Huston Copy Share Image
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they… — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn. — D.J. Cotrona Copy Share Image
Sometimes I didn't want to skate. My dad would push me so hard to get better. — Patrick Kane Copy Share Image
My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative. — Gordie Howe Copy Share Image
I don't want to retire, because you stay retired for an awfully long time. — Gordie Howe Copy Share Image
If you make it anywhere in life, you owe that success to the people along the way who stuck up for you, or made… — Gordie Howe Copy Share Image
I like to think that I'm a family man first and a professional athlete second. — Gordie Howe Copy Share Image
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… — Gordie Howe Copy Share Image
I'm aware that not everyone approved of how I played, but I don't think any apologies are in order. Early in my career, I… — Gordie Howe Copy Share Image
Growing up during the Depression, we didn't have much, but we had each other, we had our friends, and that was pretty much all… — Gordie Howe Copy Share Image
I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind. — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image