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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Wayne Gretzky

Nothing can replace the Olympics. I love the Olympics. I was so proud when I played in ’98 and I was so proud when we won in 2002.
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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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I love everything about hockey.
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The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can’t replace that experience with anything.
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You know, I’ve held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.
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There’s no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you’re sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.
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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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I’m probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don’t worry about it.
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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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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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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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Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we’re Thanksgiving turkeys.
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I really wanted to write a book [99: Stories of the Game] on the tradition and history of the league, where kids can pick it up and read it and learn things and say, “Geez, I didn’t know that. That’s pretty cool.”
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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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 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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