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Cherry: The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him.
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Cherry: Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds.
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Cherry: It's always been a part of the game. The fans love fighting. The players don't mind. The coaches like the fights. What's the big deal?
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Cherry (On hockey visors): Most of the guys that wear them are Europeans and French guys.
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Cherry: If it keeps going like this, the Zamboni driver is going to be the first star.
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Cherry: I died on May 10, 1979; at 11:10 p.m. to be exact. Two shots killed me. The first, which left me critically wounded, was fired by Guy Lafleur. The one that wiped me out came from the stick of Yvon Lambert. Had I survived these attacks I have no doubt that I would still be coach of the Boston Bruins today and, quite likely, governor of Massachusetts.
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Cherry: I consider my style that of the men of the 1930s, where men had an elegant style, tight suits, tight collars, lots of jewellery, a clean sharp image. I must admit my style has been called foppish, but I like it.
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Ron McLean (On working with Don Cherry): Don's the only guy I know who you can't quite predict. There are times when he just snaps and I have to make a decision: Can I carry on with this, or must I totally back off and save us both?
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Joe Thornton (Talking about Don Cherry): Everybody's a fan of his growing up; we all watched Coach's Corner. I'm his number one fan.
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Cherry (On Don Saleski, who he coached in Colorado): I remember taking a look at him and saying 'Anyone who perms his hair has got to go'. So we sent him to Fort Worth.
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Cherry: If Saddam Hussein put up 1,000 missiles at our country, who would you go to for help? The Russians or the U.S.?
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Cherry: 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.
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Cherry (After a goal, Islanders' Zigmund Palffy kisses teammate Travis Green on the lips): I know those guys who wear visors are sweeties, but that's a little too much.
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Cherry: 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.