I love everything about hockey.
WAYNE GRETZKYNo 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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I don’t think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
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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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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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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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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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I miss all the shots I don’t take.
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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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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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We feel fortunate [with Canada hockey team]. We have got a lot of guys who love to play, but they also love to win even more. We are pretty happy. Although we are young, we like our group of players.
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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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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 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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It’s easier to lose than to win.
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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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You’ll never catch me bragging about goals, but I’ll talk all you want about my assists.
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Maybe it wasn’t the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.
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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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Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.
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When you’re playing an exhibition, you’re kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.
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What you want to do with your best players is, it doesn’t matter how many goals and assists they get, but when they get goals and assists. The best players get them at the most important times, and that’s when we need those guys to come through.
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Sometimes people ask, ‘Are hockey fights real?’ I say, ‘If they weren’t, I’d get in more of them.
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Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don’t take the shot.
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Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.
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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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The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can’t replace that experience with anything.
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A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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