Quotations and Literature Forum

"Imagine sitting at your desk. You make a mistake. A Red Light goes on behind you. A siren starts sounding. And 18,000 people are yelling at you!"

The late Jacque Plante, or Jake the Snake who was a goaltender in the NHL

Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes.

--Oscar Wild
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Laughing at your own mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

--Cullen Hightower
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Results from M. Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations
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It is the mistakes that cost me the highest price that I find are the most difficult to forgive myself for making.

And what is the difference between a mistake and an error? A mistake is shooting a doe that you thought was a buck deer. A error is missing the deer altogether.

From; The Trials & Arrows of Bows & Errors (to be published in 2003)
--Phantom Delta

Jacque Plante is also known for:

The smooth, solid mask [marketed during the '60 to '70s] was referred to as the Jacque Plante style...Plante, the Montreal goaltender, is generally acknowledged as the first modern goalie to wear a mask. He had been developing a mask when he took yet another puck to the face in an early November 1959 game against the Rangers at Madison Square Garden. Plante went to the locker room for repairs and returned wearing the fiberglass mask he had fashioned for himself.
http://www.trnonline.com/trn/sp_hockey/ ... 15,00.html

Jacques had just set out on the path that would lead him to the National Hockey League. Instinctively, he understood that to get ahead in life, one had to be quick on the uptake, to be the right person in the right place at the right time. A goaltender must be more aware of this than anyone else; he should make it his motto. Jacques had just taken advantage of his first big break.
~excerpt from Jacques Plante: Behind the Mask, by Raymond Plante. Translated by Darcy Dunton.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol ... lante.html