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I couldn’t beat people with my strength; I don’t have a hard shot; I’m not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

Wayne Gretzky

My best friend had a hockey scholarship at Ohio State, so I would get a couple of pairs at the beginning of the season and send them down to him. They practised two hours a day. He’d skate in them for three weeks then ship them back.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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Lifting the Stanley Cup for the first time. There’s nothing like it. It’s the greatest story. In my era, they used to say you couldn’t be a superstar without winning one. I remember thinking when I lifted it: “Now they can’t say that about me.”
WAYNE GRETZKY

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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I really wanted to write a book [99: Stories of the Game] on the tradition and history of the league, where kids can pick it up and read it and learn things and say, “Geez, I didn’t know that. That’s pretty cool.”
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I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It’s what I love the most.
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You know, I’ve held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.
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I wasn’t naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that’s the way I’ll be as a coach.
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Sometimes people ask, ‘Are hockey fights real?’ I say, ‘If they weren’t, I’d get in more of them.
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One hundred percent of shots not taken don’t go in.
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Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we’re Thanksgiving turkeys.
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Maybe it wasn’t the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.
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What you want to do with your best players is, it doesn’t matter how many goals and assists they get, but when they get goals and assists. The best players get them at the most important times, and that’s when we need those guys to come through.
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It’s just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you’ve held up the Stanley Cup.
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I’m probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don’t worry about it.
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I miss all the shots I don’t take.
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I couldn’t beat people with my strength; I don’t have a hard shot; I’m not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

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