Stanley Cup hockey comes around every year, when games start to count in multiples of best-of-seven series, and the players seem to put more attention into every pass, every check, every annoying little trick.
George Vecsey
Related Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it. DAN QUISENBERRY That was much worse than expected, and the underlying numbers look weak across the board. MICHAEL EVERY This kind of figure is bound to generate negative headlines for New Zealand. Higher oil prices also ... MICHAEL EVERY The moderation is certainly very slow in arriving, even allowing for the usual lag in data, and thes... MICHAEL EVERY They are concerned about inflation first and foremost but they already know that was going to happen... MICHAEL EVERY With the import side holding up more strongly than exports for now, the Reserve Bank is unlikely to ... MICHAEL EVERY Redwood, in my opinion, was one of the smartest fishermen around and a scientific fishermen. DICK EVERY The residential housing market is well off its peak now. The Reserve Bank remains on hold for now wi... MICHAEL EVERY The underlying message from the data is that at the coal face producers are seeing higher costs, but... MICHAEL EVERY Since the Reserve Bank of Australia raised rates in March, the housing market has just been going si... MICHAEL EVERY Tom Joiner was the dock master. He would book people to fish over on the boardwalk. DICK EVERY I played bad this afternoon. I don't even want to talk about the morning right now. I putted badly. ... MATT EVERY I've been working really hard lately. Normally, it just comes to me pretty easy, but this is differe... MATT EVERY You check the pregnancy test every month, and when it comes up negative it can start to wear on you. CINDY MARGOLIS It's the unforeseen issues I'm concerned about. DONALD VAN EVERY They took an audit period when the department was clearly in disarray. It's disappointing, because I... DONALD VAN EVERY It was my worst fear that we would lose. Although this is not the biggest union, it's not a good bel... DONALD VAN EVERY I think it's his greatest accomplishment, one that has the potential for the longest-term impact. DONALD VAN EVERY Many of every day blessings comes from your determination to do great. NELSON RIOS The Americans seem to be getting more insular every year. JAMIE SPENCE We have less than one year before the World Cup. I want to have the best team in all the games, the ... CARLOS PARREIRA We have less than one year before the World Cup. I want to have the best team in all the games, the ... CARLOS ALBERTO PARREIRA Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as b... LADY GREGORY It's just one win out of 16 games. We'd certainly like to win this one every year but we'd also like... DARRELL GRAVATT I knew what he had. He's gotten better and better every year, in better shape every year. Some kids ... DALE HUNTER Every problem is waiting for an answer. Who will provide the answer? SOTONYE ANGA Winning Olympic gold against the best players in the world is certainly my greatest moment in my hoc... MATS SUNDIN A shorter rotation is to be expected. Every team and every coach does that. Every team wants its sev... CHUCKY ATKINS We always seem to be getting off to sluggish starts in the first quarter of every game in this serie... LEE OKUJA I'm more of a stay-at-home, physical defenseman. I can kill penalties and play against the top line.... DENIS GAUTHIER Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent on... IRWIN REDLENER My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four ... HOPE SOLO We'll rotate them every series. You'll have a fresh guy in there at the start of every series, and I... BILLY HITE Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the b... RICHARD CECIL Invest your life into what you were born to do. Make every minute of your life count. Redeem every m... SUNDAY ADELAJA Make it a rule to pass out seven or eight cards every day, BILL HOPKINS My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I stea... CARL CRAWFORD Every team is a little different, but this year, our perimeter players have handled the ball more in... JACK SCHRADER Dont count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count. ALICE BLOCH The Internet threatens to give every child with access to an interactive computer a free pass into t... SETH WAXMAN It's statistically impossible to have the Red Sox and Yankees in the Series every year. TIM BROSNAN California motorists, homeowners and businesses can expect to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars m... HARVEY ROSENFIELD I think it?s a great feeling. It?s an honor to go to a successful team, a team that wants to win. Th... DENIS GAUTHIER The [telecommunications] carriers are going to use every trick, every gimmick, to delay investment, SERGE TCHURUK MOTHER TIME: Every New Year is the same. Every day, every second is too for that matter. But when we... HILLARY DEPIANO There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for ... WILLIAM JAMES We had eight games last year that were decided by seven points or less, and every one of those games... TERRY ALLEN The pain of ever losing you comes more raw
more stronger and more painful than before
every new year... HLONIM We had seven of nine players get a hit. I'll take that every time. CHARLIE WARNER The best you can do everyday is to make each an every one of them count. MORAKENG SEKGOKA They made every catch, every dribble, every pass an adventure for us and put us on our heels. The de... BOB MCKILLOP I'm a little more confident and comfortable this year. This time of year I'm trying to make every pl... CHARLIE ADAMS People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union wa... MARCEL DIONNE The kind of guy who comes around every 20 years. JAY PATERNO I think going into conference play, every series is big, especially your home opener when you are tr... JAMES VILADE But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of goin... MITCH ALBOM He has a week of games up in Scotland and we go every year, ANNA FRIEL I put hibiscus flower in every cup of tea I have. It's sweet, sexy, and cleansing. MARIO BATALI We are under the Dallas Kosher and a Rabbi comes every two days to check our products. RACHEL DAVID Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good pla... LADY GREGORY Every year in order to pass a budget certain laws have to be waived. BENNIE SHELLY There is so little time. We need to make every moment count. SHANNON DELANY Real men don't lift weights, they lift women. EVERY MALE BALLET DANCER Worship comes first of course, but this (the World Cup) comes round only every four years so we can ... GEORGE CAREY Were playing for keeps now. We are going to treat every game as if it is game seven of the World Ser... GREG HAWK Abby comes every day to practice and games ready to play. She has started for four years, great athl... JEFF BARKER Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a love-born of God’s care f... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I have to pay attention. Every three days I have to put gas in it. ALEX PEREZ You’ve said life is a series of choices, but I think it’s also a series of opportunities, a seri... SHEENA HUTCHINSON Coach Inman told us he comes to watch state every year, and that this is the best atmosphere of any ... ERIC ZASTOUPIL We're going to be expecting that every play of every series in every game. We know they can do it no... CHARLIE COE Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Wake up in the morning with commitment & willing to put forth all efforts to make every opportunity ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA And I swear, when I looked in your eyes,
I saw the universe. Every star, every planet,
every galaxy ... AERIAL NICOLE MITCHELL In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do ... STEVE SCHIRRIPA It's a really nice event for the community. A lot of people look forward to it as an event that come... DANA EICHELBERGER I think of somebody every second of every moment of every day of every week of every month of every ... TOMMY POLO Brittany comes to games mentally prepared to win the game. That's the highest compliment I can give ... BOB REID He's one of those guys who comes around every 20 years. EDDIE GUARDADO Every day is a great day for hockey. MARIO LEMIEUX I got hurt after the fight and couldn't go back out there. It started to sink (in) for me. We put a ... JAMAL MAYERS I love stand up, but every year, the road takes a little more out of you. BILL ENGVALL New buying comes in virtually every time gold turns around. DANIEL VAUGHT I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book. LORRAINE TOUSSAINT I listened to George Carlin when I was a kid and knew every word of his routines. SEAN HAYES I work every day hard. I put my body through hell. Let me tell you, every year, seven months of the ... MO FARAH Why would you pay more for a big name? It comes out of your hide each and every year. FRANK ARMSTRONG Joy multiples when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is lif... R.A. SALVATORE I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself. DEBASISH MRIDHA Cherish every minute. Treasure every hour. Make each day count. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There's usually a little bit of fluctuation every year. DENNY RINEHART It's kind of odd. My freshman year, I thought was going to be a jump-start to a great career. But pr... MICHEAL MORRIS I love competing against the best players. I have a huge challenge, and that's to win a U.S. Ope... PHIL MICKELSON You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, ev... BERNIE MAC We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phone... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom. GARY JOHNSON Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. ROY BENNETT Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, ... ETTY HILLESUM Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, ... ETTY HILSUM Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count. STELLA MCCARTNEY
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