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 GRETZKYI don’t like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don’t like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it’s essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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I love everything about hockey.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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One hundred percent of shots not taken don’t go in.
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It’s an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
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We played in an era where you were taught to hate your opponent. But life changes. I raise my kids differently than my mom and dad raised their kids.
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Hockey is my life. I love every minute of it.
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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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In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.
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Maybe it wasn’t the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.
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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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