My kids are no different than anyone else’s – they tend to disagree with everything I say!
WAYNE GRETZKYOnly one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don’t take the shot.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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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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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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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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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.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, ‘This is what we’re going to do,’ and bought an annuity with it.
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When people come up to me and say, “I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto,” or, “I saw your first goal in the NHL,” that triggers memories. But I don’t sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, “You know, one year I got 92 goals.”
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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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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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You know, I’ve held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.
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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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I don’t think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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Hockey is my life. I love every minute of it.
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