Shooting from the Lip: Hockey"s Best Quotes and Quips

Цена 12.21 - 30.39 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781554074358

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Издатель Firefly Books

Страниц 176

Год выпуска 2008

An all-star collection of wise, sarcastic and hilarious quotes. "Shooting from the Lip" is full of the off-the-cuff comments that keep millions of fans not only watching games, but also avidly reading the sports pages. They"re fresh, they"re frank, and they"re all about hockey. For example: You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. (Center Wayne Gretzky); I was kind of hoping it would straighten it out. (Center Rod Brind"Amour, after suffering his fourth broken nose); I"m not dirty, just aggressive. Fighter pilots have machine guns. I have only my mask and stick. (Goalie Gerry Cheevers); I don"t want to tell you half truths, unless they"re completely accurate. (Coach Alain Vigneault). There are 300-plus quotes representing 50 years of hockey, further enlivened with colorful graphics and photographs of the featured players, coaches and other personalities. The book is organized into a wide range of topics,...