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I couldn’t beat people with my strength; I don’t have a hard shot; I’m not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

Wayne Gretzky

It’s an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.
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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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I love everything about hockey.
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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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It’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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When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn’t make the NHL. Now it’s kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can’t be a good coach because I was a great athlete.
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In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.
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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 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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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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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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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Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don’t know. That’s got to be tough.
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My best friend had a hockey scholarship at Ohio State, so I would get a couple of pairs at the beginning of the season and send them down to him. They practised two hours a day. He’d skate in them for three weeks then ship them back.
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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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You’ll never catch me bragging about goals, but I’ll talk all you want about my assists.
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I couldn’t beat people with my strength; I don’t have a hard shot; I’m not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

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I couldn’t beat people with my strength; I don’t have a hard shot; I’m not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

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