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Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don’t take the shot.

Wayne Gretzky

One hundred percent of shots not taken don’t go in.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don’t think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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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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I think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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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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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 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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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it’s total fun for him and it was for me.
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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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I love everything about hockey.
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I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual. And yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.
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Maybe it wasn’t the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.
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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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Sometimes people ask, ‘Are hockey fights real?’ I say, ‘If they weren’t, I’d get in more of them.
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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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No matter who you are, we’re creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.
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