Thunderbird Spirit Quotes

“Some labels are bad enough: Troublemaker. Bad-tempered. Rebel. I could live with those. I deserved them. Other labels like thief hurt worse and follow you longer.”
― Sigmund Brouwer, Thunderbird Spirit

“Getting called into the coach’s office is like getting called into the principal’s office. And I never have good enough grades to hope it’s because the principal has nice news.”
― Sigmund Brouwer, Thunderbird Spirit

“The guys on the team tell me that when I go crazy, my eyeballs roll back into my head. If that’s true, my eyeballs were spinning in circles as I wiped the spit off my cheek. And I lost it. Totally.”
― Sigmund Brouwer, Thunderbird Spirit

“I could have told him I’m one of the smallest guys on the ice. Can I help it if biggest players trip over my knee and smash into the boards? But the referee hadn’t believed my story. This guy probably wouldn’t either. Besides, he wasn’t getting to me. I’ve been called worse things than a boneheaded jerk.”
― Sigmund Brouwer, Thunderbird Spirit

“I spend a lot of time in the penalty box and I get yelled at a lot by angry hockey fans. I expected Saskatoon fans to hate me.”
― Sigmund Brouwer, Thunderbird Spirit