Jack Adams Quotes

Jack Adams — Canadian Athlete born on June 14, 1895, died on May 01, 1968

John James "Jack" Adams was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, coach and general manager in the National Hockey League and Pacific Coast Hockey Association. He was a Hall of Fame player during a 10-year professional career with Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa. He is best known for his 36-year association with the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL as coach and as a general manager. He later became the first president of the Central Professional Hockey League. Adams is the only person to have won the Stanley Cup as a player, coach, and general manager... (wikipedia)

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.

On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor.

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

Jack Adams Quotes

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