T. J. Oshie quotes

“The American heroes are wearing camo. That's not me.”
-- T. J. Oshie

Source : "T.J. Oshie: Five Things to Know About the U.S. Hockey Star" by Andrea Billups, people.com. February 15, 2014.

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“No. The real heroes wear camo. I'm not one of them.”
-- T. J. Oshie

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“We hate Chicago and Chicago hates us and unfortunately he's on the other team and he's the big gun.”
-- T. J. Oshie

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“God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.”

“The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.”

“Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.”

“You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.”

“I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!”

“These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”

“We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.”

“Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?”

Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”

“The American heroes are wearing camo. That's not me.”

Source : "T.J. Oshie: Five Things to Know About the U.S. Hockey Star" by Andrea Billups, people.com. February 15, 2014.