A Quote by Fred Shero

I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.

Fred Shero

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Fred Shero
Canadian - Ice hockey
October 23, 1925 - November 24, 1990

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Michael Caine

To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.

Scott Stossel

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

Alexander Skarsgard

Act like a duck. Be calm on the surface, but paddle like hell underneath.

Oliver Luck

Have you seen a duck gliding smoothly on water? Does it ever look like it is paddling furiously underneath the surface? I don't have to show that I am working very hard.

Salman Khan

The secret of success is to be like a duck, Smooth and unruffled on top, But paddling furiously underneath.

Bill Cosby

Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.

Katherine Kelly

Coaches are like ducks. Calm on top, but paddling underneath. Believe me, there's a lot of leg movement.

Ken Hitchcock

I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.

K. Flay

Like a duck on the pond. On the surface everything looks calm, but beneath the water those little feet are churning a mile a minute.

Gene Hackman

My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it's a duck. And if you ain't quacking, you ain't no duck.

Bun B

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quack like a duck, then it just may be a duck.

Walter Reuther

That’s the tricky thing about love. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck. But after you sleep with it a month or so, or get dumped at the altar by it, it starts smelling more like a skunk.

C.C. Hunter

Gundar seemed to come to a decision. "Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck." "Very wise," Halt said. "And what exactly do your mother's words of wisdom have to do with this situation?" Gundar shrugged. "It looks like a channel. It's the right place for a channel. If I were digging one, this is where I'd dig a channel. So. . ." "So it's probably the channel?" Selethen said. Gundar grinned at him. "Either that or it's a duck.