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Athletes are used to battling. The public would never learn their names if professional athletes had not shown courage at an early age. They learn they can overcome, but sometimes this becomes a false sense of security that leads them to the edge.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Age Athletes Battling Becomes Courage Early Early Age Edge False Had Leads Learn Names Never Overcome Professional Public Security Sense Shown Sometimes Them Used Would

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No matter how many times it happens, the public always seems to be shocked when an athlete dies young, but the reality is, there are no promises.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Always Athlete Dies Happens How How Many Times Many Matter Promises Public Reality Seems Shocked Times Young

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It is no fun lining up in your own building - as the hockey players say - and touching the hands of fellow stubbly louts who have just sent you off to the proverbial cabin on the lake.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Building Cabin Fellow Fun Hands Hockey Just Lake Lining No Fun Off Own Players Say Sent Touching Up Who You Your

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It's a Stanley Cup thing. The boys mangle one another for a series, performing all kinds of nasty tricks, then they make nice, shaking soggy hands as the teams shuffle in opposite directions.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Another Boy Cup Directions Hands Kinds Make Nasty Nice Opposite Performing Series Shaking Shuffle Stanley Stanley Cup Teams Then Thing Tricks

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Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.

~George Vecsey

Topics: Began Canada Century Country Dates English Handshake Historians Hockey Imagined Imitating Kids Old Prairie Preached Say Settlers Soon Sportsmanship Tough Upper-Class Urban Version Who 19Th Century

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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