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If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I’d choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.

Wayne Gretzky

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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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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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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As a player, you have one responsibility, to focus yourself and be ready for the game. As a coach, your responsibility is to get 20 guys ready and have them all on the same page. If you can’t get every guy ready every night, you’re going to struggle.
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The Power of WHO provides great lessons about how to succeed in business and in life. If you surround yourself with quality people and great friends, the sky’s the limit.
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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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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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We’re in a tough situation because of teenage children, and then we have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, so my family and my responsibilities is sort of a juggle.
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I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn’t make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.
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It’s kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn’t make the NHL.
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It’s an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
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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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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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Your friends, family, and kids have to understand that’s your priority. It’s the only way you can be successful.
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When you’re playing an exhibition, you’re kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.
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Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don’t know. That’s got to be tough.
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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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When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn’t make the NHL. Now it’s kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can’t be a good coach because I was a great athlete.
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Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.
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Nothing can replace the Olympics. I love the Olympics. I was so proud when I played in ’98 and I was so proud when we won in 2002.
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At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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It’s easier to lose than to win.
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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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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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We feel fortunate [with Canada hockey team]. We have got a lot of guys who love to play, but they also love to win even more. We are pretty happy. Although we are young, we like our group of players.
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If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I’d choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.
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If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I’d choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.

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