If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I’d choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.
WAYNE GRETZKYIf I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I’d choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
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I grew up such a fan. It was my life. Everything I did was hockey related and everything I have is because of hockey and the NHL.
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You’ll never catch me bragging about goals, but I’ll talk all you want about my assists.
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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.
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He brings something special. I don’t know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn’t understand his answer.
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It’s an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
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I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.
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I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it’s a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you’re in the NHL.
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When people come up to me and say, “I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto,” or, “I saw your first goal in the NHL,” that triggers memories. But I don’t sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, “You know, one year I got 92 goals.”
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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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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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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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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