I can’t remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.
WAYNE GRETZKYIt 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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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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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.
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It doesn’t matter what I think. It doesn’t matter what other people think. You have to get on the ice and participate and play and the best team wins.
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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.
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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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Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don’t know. That’s got to be tough.
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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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Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.
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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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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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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 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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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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