Hockey is my life. I love every minute of it.
WAYNE GRETZKYIt’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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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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I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It’s what I love the most.
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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 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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When you’re playing an exhibition, you’re kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.
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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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Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we’re Thanksgiving turkeys.
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One hundred percent of shots not taken don’t go in.
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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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And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I’m really not that competitive.
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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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You’ll never catch me bragging about goals, but I’ll talk all you want about my assists.
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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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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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What you want to do with your best players is, it doesn’t matter how many goals and assists they get, but when they get goals and assists. The best players get them at the most important times, and that’s when we need those guys to come through.
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