T. J. Oshie Quotes

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T. J. Oshie

Profession : Hockey Player

Birth : December 23, 1986

My favorite thing to watch is golf. Even if it's the Masters, if I watch for a couple of hours, I'll end up grabbing the clubs and heading to the course and miss the second half of the broadcast.

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I would just always rather play the sport than watch it, so I tend to stay away from the sports on TV.

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My dad was one of those dads that was always in the backyard playing with you.

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At the end of every practice when you're a kid, you go to the red line and do shootouts.

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I used to watch a lot of video and I ended up getting stuck on what goalies were doing before and not really thinking about the fact that they're probably watching me and trying to get me to do something different.

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My moves aren't necessarily highlight-reel. I feel like they're just ways I can get the puck in the net.

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There's a lot of guys in the League that are probably a lot more fun to watch than I am.

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I'll sit at the computer at night and try to look up old Ojibwe symbols, and I always tinker with maybe doing something with the language and really just trying to be more part of it.

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I wish I spoke a different language. I think it's so cool seeing the guys in the locker room be able to communicate and the rest of us have no idea what they're saying.

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I never got in a fight in college.

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My first name is Timothy and my mom, when I was really young, watched the movie 'The Champ' and the little boy in the movie's name is T.J. She liked it and figured it would work out.

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I don't have a routine before the game, I obviously think about what I've got to do. But I just always want to pride myself on being the hardest worker on the ice. That's my main goal.

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I was kind of playing in more of a grinder, support, penalty-kill role in Sochi.

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I know when Pittsburgh was winning, you played Pittsburgh and you wanted to see how you measured up against the champs.

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This expansion stuff, I wouldn't want to be the guy who has to select who to protect and who not to.

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We were traveling in traffic for me to get to practices, so at times it would take two hours to get to the rink. My mom would drop me off to my dad's side of the family and they would drive me to practice. I'd get dropped back off, we'd meet my mom and then she'd drive me back home.

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Whether we're throwing tape balls into the garbage can in the locker room or we're on the ice playing in a playoff game, I like to make competitions out of things and have games and try to beat people.

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Teaching how to read isn't the easiest thing.

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I'm a Capital. That's where I'd like to be, that's where I'd like to stay.

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I haven't won too many championships in my lifetime even through the youth years.

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