Top 35 Bobby Orr Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Forget about style; worry about results.”

— Bobby Orr

2. “Blood, sweat, tears. No practice tomorrow ’cause there’s no one left to beat.”

— Bobby Orr

3. “You don’t win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.”

— Bobby Orr

4. “You never know how a single interaction with a person might affect their life, so you must constantly try to be at your best.”

— Bobby Orr

5. “Staying out of the penalty box will really help.”

— Bobby Orr

6. “If you’re going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I’ve never met, new friends.”

— Bobby Orr

7. “Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.”

— Bobby Orr

8. “So many of today’s programs are about trophies and jackets, and we think that’s a big mistake.”

— Bobby Orr

9. “Hockey is a tough game.”

— Bobby Orr

10. “I’m really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.”

— Bobby Orr

11. “Sidney Crosby, our greatest player, I don’t want to see Sidney Crosby in the penalty box. I don’t want to see Sidney Crosby hurt. I want to see Sidney Crosby play.”

— Bobby Orr

12. “Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.”

— Bobby Orr

13. “Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that’s not the case because programs are built around the elite.”

— Bobby Orr

14. “The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we’re teaching – not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values – are sinking in.”

— Bobby Orr

15. “Passion is a key word for any athlete, regardless of the sport. It’s important in any profession, for that matter.”

— Bobby Orr

16. “My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.”

— Bobby Orr

17. “Hockey is a tough game. With all the talk and everything that’s going on right now, it frightens me a little bit that we are giving our players an excuse not to hit. I just hope that we don’t take that out of our game at the pro level.”

— Bobby Orr

18. “On sheer ability, Mario is good enough to win scoring titles with a broken stick. On pure talent, he’s the best there is. But Wayne almost never disappoints you. He comes to work every night.”

— Bobby Orr

19. “The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that’s missing today.”

— Bobby Orr

20. “I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I’d finished playing, I had to go to work.”

— Bobby Orr

21. “I was an offensive defenseman. I was up the ice as much as I was back.”

— Bobby Orr

22. “There are no environments where you’re only going to win, because life just isn’t like that.”

— Bobby Orr

23. “We’ve got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.”

— Bobby Orr

24. “Growing up, if I hadn’t had sports, I don’t know where I’d be. God only knows what street corners I’d have been standing on and God only knows what I’d have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.”

— Bobby Orr

25. “I always tell Bobby he was up in the air so so long that I had had time to shower and change before he hit the ice.”

— Bobby Orr

26. “I’ve been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I’ve won some awards and I’m very proud of those accomplishments. But I don’t think there’s anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.”

— Bobby Orr

27. “I’m a terrible dancer! Oh, I’m an awful dancer!”

— Bobby Orr

28. “Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.”

— Bobby Orr

29. “If a player is trying to intimidate a skilled player on your team, what do we want? We want our skilled players playing, so we shouldn’t be doing that.”

— Bobby Orr

30. “When you’re young, you don’t realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.”

— Bobby Orr

31. “I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You’re being paid to play a game! That’s pretty special.”

— Bobby Orr

32. “We’re professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there’s some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that’s a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.”

— Bobby Orr

33. “I couldn’t wait to get on the ice. I couldn’t wait to get to practice. As a kid, I couldn’t wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.”

— Bobby Orr

34. “If you talk to most athletes, the place you’re most comfortable is your playing field. I’m not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.”

— Bobby Orr

35. “I didn’t want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn’t going to do one.”

— Bobby Orr

36. “Once you turn pro and you’re making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.”

— Bobby Orr

37. “We’re going to have more kids playing, and we’re going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.”

— Bobby Orr

38. “You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don’t all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.”

— Bobby Orr

39. “I don’t spend a lot of time here in New York. I didn’t realize there were so many Bruins fans in New York.”

— Bobby Orr