Ted Lindsay Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Ted Lindsay:

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#9f4581ca

I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#346d289d

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#324b0110

I love people and I love to be around people.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#cd9b3d2e

When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#064efb6a

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#0f4bc340

But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#f0d7fc48

With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#6de2b497

I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#6e262e6f

By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#8c9e4434

They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#a0351487

I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#92d7ffc0

At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#8886f164

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#4516aa48

Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#9872b4fb

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#631d5c9d

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#cf4d3743

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#d27f9d63

I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt.
~Ted Lindsay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ted-lindsay-quotes/#94b39099

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