You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
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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In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.
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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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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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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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I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn’t make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.
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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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Maybe it wasn’t the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.
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I love everything about hockey.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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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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I don’t think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
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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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I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It’s what I love the most.
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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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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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