Don Cherry
Don Cherry
Donald Stewart "Don" Cherryis a Canadian ice hockey commentator for CBC Television. He is a sports writer, as well as a retired professional hockey player and NHL coach. Cherry co-hosts the "Coach's Corner" intermission segmenton the long-running Canadian sports program Hockey Night in Canada, and has also worked for ESPN in the United States as a commentator during the latter stages of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Nicknamed Grapes, he is a Canadian icon known for his outspoken manner, flamboyant dress,...
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth5 February 1934
CityKingston, Canada
I never, ever said 'don't wear a visor,'
What I said was if you're wearing a visor and you're going for safety, OK. But don't go around being a tough guy.
Everyone knows everybody loves fights. They better start listening to the people who are at the game and pay the money than the twits upstairs who get in for free.
Everybody loves fights, ... The fans love it.
And you can bet, ... fans will watch every minute of them.
Bob said and thought what the silent majority -- the God-fearing taxpayer and the backbone of the country -- thought. He wrote it like it was.
You're right. It was loosening up until two weeks ago and then the order must have come down 'don't loosen up' and then they started all over again. They've tightened right up again.
You're going to say 'what about other kids?' They get hurt in other sports but I think it would have to be hockey and I know at least five or six other guys that it would just help the families so much.
people think common sense is common - but it's not.
They're asking the wrong people. There's lots of people, I'm sure, who'd love to carry the flag in.
They released one name, one name got leaked out, and it had to be Janet (Jones) Gretzky.
I look around and I wish sometimes I could just walk into a building and be like any other coach, but I can't and I realize that. ... I have to be Don Cherry to the kids who go to the games. ... I think I owe it to them to sign autographs.
If Saddam Hussein put up 1,000 missiles at our country, who would you go to for help? The Russians or the U.S.? Don't do it again.
To run up a score like that, that is wrong. First of all it is not the Canadian way.