Foster Hewitt quotes

Foster Hewitt quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Cournoyer has it on that wing. Here's a shot - Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here's another shot! Right in front - THEY SCORE!!! Henderson has scored for Canada!”
-- Foster Hewitt

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“We're trying to work on Sami to get through that and shoot the puck. MacInnis shot the puck all the time. If there was a fool who wanted to stand in front and break an ankle, tough luck.”
“It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after Toronto's second touchdown.”
“Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.”
“Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not hear The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, And just within our reach? It was. And yet We lost it in this daily jar and fret, And now live idle in a vague regret; But still our place is kept, and it will wait, Ready for us to fill it, soon or late. No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.”
“Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.”

Source : Aga Khan III, Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah (agha khan) (1954). “The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time”
“View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.”
“Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged.”
“Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.”
“The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.”

Source : "PM: Israel committed to Palestinian peace deal". www.ynetnews.com. December 5, 2012.
“It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.”

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