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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.

Wayne Gretzky

Hockey is my life. I love every minute of it.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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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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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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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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.
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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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Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we’re Thanksgiving turkeys.
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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Best Defeat Failure Inspirational Lose
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Compliment Hard Work Myself Pay Yourself
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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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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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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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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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He brings something special. I don’t know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn’t understand his answer.
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Lifting the Stanley Cup for the first time. There’s nothing like it. It’s the greatest story. In my era, they used to say you couldn’t be a superstar without winning one. I remember thinking when I lifted it: “Now they can’t say that about me.”
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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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