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.
WAYNE GRETZKYNo matter who you are, we’re creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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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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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game – if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.
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Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.
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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 love everything about hockey.
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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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And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I’m really not that competitive.
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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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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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That’s the hardest part of this whole process. The best part is picking the players and the worst part is telling basically five players they are not going to play tonight.
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When you’re playing an exhibition, you’re kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.
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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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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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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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