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.
WAYNE GRETZKYProcrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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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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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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Lifting the Stanley Cup for the first time. There’s nothing like it. It’s the greatest story. In my era, they used to say you couldn’t be a superstar without winning one. I remember thinking when I lifted it: “Now they can’t say that about me.”
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.
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Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.
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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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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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And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I’m really not that competitive.
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When people come up to me and say, “I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto,” or, “I saw your first goal in the NHL,” that triggers memories. But I don’t sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, “You know, one year I got 92 goals.”
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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My kids are no different than anyone else’s – they tend to disagree with everything I say!
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A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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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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At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.
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