One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game – if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.
WAYNE GRETZKYEight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we’re Thanksgiving turkeys.
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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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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.
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Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.
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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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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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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 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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Canadian players have started to put more of an importance on the World Championships in the sense that as soon as they lose, they are called, they want to go play and they don’t go only on the basis of if they are injured.
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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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Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don’t know. That’s got to be tough.
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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 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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At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.
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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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I don’t think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
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