Book: Bearish angle. Page 1

He once heard that in order to mentally prepare for parenthood, you need to go to a rock festival and live in the same tent with your fat, stoned friends. From morning to evening you stagger like a somnambulist, in a constant state of acute lack of sleep, your clothes are all smeared with food that you yourself only ate on rare occasions, there is an eternal ringing in your ears. As soon as you walk past a puddle, some idiot, giggling, will immediately jump into it with both feet, and as soon as you retire to the toilet, they immediately start banging on the door and demanding that you come out. They wake you up in the middle of the night to share with you some innermost thoughts, and in the morning you often wake up in someone's puddle.

A joke is a powerful thing - it can bring you into a certain circle and it can exclude you. Draw a line between “us” and “them”.

How you love a person who can make you laugh at such a [difficult] moment!

He was once asked what talent was the most important for a coach of a hockey team. Sune replied: “Be able to drink crappy coffee.” Endless early rises and late evenings in stadiums with burnt coffee pots and cheap machines, bus routes past lonely roadside eateries, school canteens at sports camps and competitions - how can you stand it all if you have an expensive coffee machine at home? Do you want to become a coach? Don't get used to what others have. Free time, family, delicious coffee. Hockey tolerates only the most resilient. Those who, if necessary, can drink coffee even cold.

If you want your teenager to withdraw into himself, suggest to him: “Maybe we can talk?”

One of the worst things about grief is that if you don’t grieve, you feel selfish.

The worst events in our lives have this peculiarity: the last happy moments before everything collapsed are always most clearly imprinted in our memory. Seconds before impact, ice cream at a gas station before a car accident, the last swim in the sea before you returned home and learned of a fatal diagnosis. Our consciousness keeps returning us to those happy moments, night after night, asking: “Could I have changed anything? How could I be happy at such a moment? Could I have prevented what would happen if I had known in advance?”

If you played hockey for at least five minutes as a child, you will understand that the only thing you need in this life is to play more. More and more, because this game is mixed with the best ingredients of all sports: speed and strength, total technique and fight, one hundred percent of the heart and one hundred percent of the mind. There is no better game. Supreme pleasure. A drug you can't quit.

How terrible a person feels who hides a terrible secret from his loved ones.

“We have our own priorities,” he smiled.

Moments are all we have.

The most painful thing is to fall from the hierarchical ladder.

The only thing she wanted was for there to be forty-eight hours in a day. However, she is not greedy. Let it be at least thirty-six.

Sport also captivates us because it reminds us how small we are and makes us bigger.