Don Cherry Quotes (13 Quotes)

I look around and I wish sometimes I could just walk into a building and be like any other coach, but I can't and I realize that. ... I have to be Don Cherry to the kids who go to the games. ... I think I owe it to them to sign autographs.

I never understand this. He's got 11 power-play goals, nobody touches him. He's got a cannon of a shot. If he doesn't put it in, he tears your ankles off. Get McCabe out there.

I do like the centre-ice stuff when there's not the hooking and holding. I like that the trap is out. But we have to have a little sense in the other end. We just can't have players with clear sailing. We have to have a little battle in front of the net. That's my problem. The fans like it, though. They like the shootout and I like the shootout, I like the tag-up rule. All in all, it's good.

And you can bet, ... fans will watch every minute of them.

people think common sense is common - but it's not.

I can't tell you how many people said, 'I'll never watch hockey again, I'm done with it,' once the lockout began, ... I just laughed. I knew it wasn't possible. It's a religion here, a way of life. We love the game too much. People were starving for it. When the season starts, they will all be back. They can't help themselves.

If Saddam Hussein put up 1,000 missiles at our country, who would you go to for help The Russians or the U.S. Don't do it again.

To run up a score like that, that is wrong. First of all it is not the Canadian way.

They're asking the wrong people. There's lots of people, I'm sure, who'd love to carry the flag in.

We always trained together because the training is so intense, ... Hindsight is 20-20 - maybe that wasn't the expedient thing for me to do. I thought I was doing a good thing, offering my services.

You're going to say 'what about other kids' They get hurt in other sports but I think it would have to be hockey and I know at least five or six other guys that it would just help the families so much.

Bob said and thought what the silent majority -- the God-fearing taxpayer and the backbone of the country -- thought. He wrote it like it was.

I think the people, the working-man people, made a statement here, that you don't have to be a college graduate to be a good Canadian.