As a hockey player, Mario Lemieux's skill, determination, passion, and courage in the face of adversity had an enormous impact on his peers in the world of professional hockey. In fact his influence began before he ever reached the National Hockey League, and it continues through to today, eight years removed from his final game and now a franchise owner. This collection of quotations, curated by an experienced editor, features over 150 quotation-length recollections of Super Mario by famo...

"I was 14 when I lost my front teeth. The main thing was, we won the game. You hate to lose your teeth and the game too." Bill BarberHockey Talk - Quotations About the Great Sport of Hockey, From The Players and Coaches Who Made It Great is a unique and inspired collection that includes over 350 quotations about every aspect of the great game of hockey-toughness, teamwork, scoring, goaltenders, the Stanley Cup and much, much more. And it includes quotation...

The 2015 NHL Entry Draft is the most anticipated draft in decades. Featuring a generational talent in Connor McDavid, the draft also features potential franchise players such as collegiate standout Jack Eichel and McDavid's teammate, Dylan Strome. Each year, The Hockey Writers draft team covers the draft from every angle, producing exhaustive profiles of the most intriguing prospects. With so much riding on this year's draft, the team has compiled over 150 profiles of the prospects they be...

It is hard to keep 218 frogs in a wheelbarrow long enough to get a bill passed. John Boehner, Speaker of the House Looking back on 2012, did you have a favorite quote? More than ever, the finger that clicks "Like" or "Share" to share the latest sound byte is the hand that rocks the world and this is never more true than during an election year. Thus the year 2012 was a year dominated by political sound bytes- many of them gaffs,...

Hockey players aren't boring people-- they just play them on TV, where they give notoriously dull post-game interviews loaded with sports cliches and lacking in any real substance. Dig a little deeper, however, and you find that while hockey may not be the quotation bonanza that is baseball, it is nonetheless a major sport populated by lots of clever, quotable people."Max Pacioretty is the most unselfish, two-way sniper in the league. He's the anti-Phil Kessel." (Jack Todd)"...

There are some things you can't learn in a classroom! When in the course of educational events, it becomes necessary to blow off a little steam and hoist a few, here is the book you want committed to memory. The outrageously fun drinking games included in this complete compendium run the gamut. Some use props such as quarters, cards, dice, Tupperware, or your body, while others are especially designed to be played far from the table (and out of harm's way). Written by a college drinking ga...

You're never lonely if you can play the guitar. Nile Rodgers Musician. This unique and entertaining quotation collection contains nearly eight hundred quotations uttered during the first decade of the 21st century, vetted and properly cited from their (most often) original published sources. Speakers include people from a vast array of fields and backgrounds, including politicians, terrorists, tyrants, popes, novelists, bloggers, rappers, executives, visionaries, actors, athletes, and Nobel l...

Very few people change history. Bin Laden changed history. Peter Bergen, Journalist With the speed of technology ever increasing, our modern history is being written in soundbites. A soundbite today is drowned out tomorrow by an even funnier or sadder soundbite. If you track, record, and compile these numerous quotes that surface in the news and popular culture, you have a very early, first draft of the modern age. Whi...

Terry Ryan was poised to take the hockey world by storm when he was selected eighth overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1995 NHL draft, their highest draft pick in a decade. Expected to go on to become a hockey star, Ryan played a total of eight NHL games for the Canadiens, scoring no goals and no assists: not exactly the career he, or anyone else, was expecting.Though Terry’s NHL career wasn’t long, he experienced a lot and has no shortage of hilarious and fascinating revelat...

One of the greatest sports figures of all time at last breaks his silence in a memoir as unique as the man himself.Number 4. It is just about the most common number in hockey, but invoke that number and you can only be talking about one player -- the man often referred to as the greatest ever to play the game: Bobby Orr.From 1966 through the mid-70s he could change a game just by stepping on the ice. Orr could do things that others simply couldn’t, and while teammates and o...

Whether he was scoring top-shelf goals or crushing an opponent into the boards, Jeremy Roenick—widely known as J.R.—was never shy about the way he played hockey. As much as he mixed it up in front of the net, J.R., an NHL veteran of twenty years with five different teams, often found himself in the middle of controversy off the ice as well. Above all else, J.R. was an entertainer, never afraid to dance on the blue line to liven up a game or to spend time with the fans. Now, as a hockey bro...

This completely updated second edition of the bestselling beer resource features the most current information on beer styles, flavor profiles, sensory evaluation guidelines, craft beer trends, food and beer pairings, and draft beer systems.You’ll learn to identify the scents, colors, flavors, mouth-feel, and vocabulary of the major beer styles—including ales, lagers, weissbeirs, and Belgian beers—and develop a more nuanced understanding of your favorite brews with ...