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By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I’m still healthy.

Wayne Gretzky

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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Children Family Myself Responsibility Situation Tough
Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Father Marriage Mom Myself
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 GRETZKY

Best Goal Help Important Need Player Sports Time Yourself
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

Best Couple Friendship Himself Hockey Practice Season Skate Sports Struggle Support
The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits – good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Bad Game Goodness Habit Key Play Rival Yourself
I love everything about hockey.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Hockey Love Myself One Liner Sports
Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, ‘This is what we’re going to do,’ and bought an annuity with it.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Best Father Financial Money Myself Son Thankful Youth
It really doesn’t matter or concern me what people are saying or who thinks who is the favorite. The bottom line is you have to play.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Myself People Play Thinking Yourself
Your friends, family, and kids have to understand that’s your priority. It’s the only way you can be successful.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Family Friendship Priority Success Understand Yourself
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Fortunate Happiness Love Play Player Team Win Young
Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don’t know. That’s got to be tough.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Alone Art Myself Skate Sports Tough
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

Leadership Myself Play Thinking Way
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Complaint Gift God Hands Kind Life Myself People Talent Thinking Tough
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

Achievement Goal Missing Sports Yourself
At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Day Disappoint End Lost Ourselves
It doesn’t matter what I think. It doesn’t matter what other people think. You have to get on the ice and participate and play and the best team wins.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Best People Play Team Thinking Win Yourself

By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I’m still healthy.

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By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I’m still healthy.

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