I 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.
WAYNE GRETZKYA good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.
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If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I’d choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.
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Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.
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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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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.
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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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A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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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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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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You’ll never catch me bragging about goals, but I’ll talk all you want about my assists.
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Canadian players have started to put more of an importance on the World Championships in the sense that as soon as they lose, they are called, they want to go play and they don’t go only on the basis of if they are injured.
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I love everything about hockey.
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People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.
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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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At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.
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