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I love everything about hockey.
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Hockey Love Myself One Liner Sports
The Power of WHO provides great lessons about how to succeed in business and in life. If you surround yourself with quality people and great friends, the sky’s the limit.
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Business Friendship Greatness Lesson Life Limitation People Power Quality Sky Success
At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.
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Day Disappoint End Lost Ourselves
Maybe it wasn’t the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.
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Inspirational Motivational Passion Talent
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.
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Care End Hide Hockey Kind Myself Sports Touch Yourself
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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Children Generosity Myself Play Responsibility See Sports Start Team Thinking Time
The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits – good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Bad Game Goodness Habit Key Play Rival Yourself
It’s kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn’t make the NHL.
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Heart Broken Kind Myself Rejection Slow Small Sports
I heard people say, ‘Why would he want to do this?’ My answer is ‘Why not?’ It is what I love. It’s what I know.
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Job Love Myself People Sports
In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.
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Gold Myself Reward Win
I grew up such a fan. It was my life. Everything I did was hockey related and everything I have is because of hockey and the NHL.
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Fans Growth Hockey Life Myself
I wasn’t naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that’s the way I’ll be as a coach.
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Gift Hockey Leadership Myself Natural Speed Way Work
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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Blessing Children Feeling Goodness Happiness Level Myself Play
We played in an era where you were taught to hate your opponent. But life changes. I raise my kids differently than my mom and dad raised their kids.
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Children Different Father Mom Myself Play Teaching
And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I’m really not that competitive.
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Competition Hockey Myself People Sports Talk
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Inspirational Motivational Myself Passion Skate
Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we’re Thanksgiving turkeys.
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Change Fame Funny Popular Thankful Time
When you’re playing an exhibition, you’re kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.
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Kind Let Go Opportunity Play Yourself
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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Animal Better Habit Human Pressure Situation Yourself
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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Fundamental Human Leadership Mistake Perfection Possible Sound World Yourself
Hockey is my life. I love every minute of it.
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Hockey Inspirational Life Love Myself Sports
Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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Appearance Body Growth Myself
Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don’t take the shot.
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Achievement Goal Missing Sports Yourself
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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Children Fight Growth Hockey Sports
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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Big Fast Myself Play Strong Way
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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Myself People Play Thinking Yourself
It’s easier to lose than to win.
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Easy Lose One Liner Win

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