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Cherry: The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him.
Cherry: It's always been a part of the game. The fans love fighting. The players don't mind. The coaches like the fights. What's the big deal?
Cherry: If it keeps going like this, the Zamboni driver is going to be the first star.
Cherry: I consider my style that of the men of the 1930s, where men had an elegant style, tight suits, tight collars, lots of jewellery... (more Don Cherry quotes)
Don Cherry played tenor drum in a civilian pipe and drum band in Ontario.
Cherry contributed in developing Rose Cherry's Home for Kids in Milton, Ontario.
In 1985, the first of a chain of franchised sports bars/restaurants bearing Don Cherry's name was opened in Hamilton.
His voice was also used in Disney's animated feature The Wild.
Cherry owns a bull terrier named Blue.... (more Don Cherry trivia)