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.
WAYNE GRETZKYThe only way a kid is going to practice is if it’s total fun for him and it was for me.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
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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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I love everything about hockey.
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Maybe it wasn’t the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal 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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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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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 think the Americans are ready to play, they want to beat us. I think that players like Chris Chelios and his leadership over there goes a long way.
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It really doesn’t matter or concern me what people are saying or who thinks who is the favorite. The bottom line is you have to play.
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Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.
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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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Kids don’t fight in minor hockey anymore. There’s very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys are not fighting.
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