Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
WAYNE GRETZKYI 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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He brings something special. I don’t know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn’t understand his answer.
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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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It’s easier to lose than to win.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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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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I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It’s what I love the most.
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I love everything about hockey.
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When you’re playing an exhibition, you’re kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.
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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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When I played in a 21-team league, there were six or seven goalies who were just average, and the equipment and pads were smaller. I came in the right era. I played for the right team. It was all speed, and creativity and imagination.
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Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don’t know. That’s got to be tough.
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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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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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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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Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.
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