Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.
WAYNE GRETZKYI skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.
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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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It’s just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you’ve held up the Stanley Cup.
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One hundred percent of shots not taken don’t go in.
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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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When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn’t make the NHL. Now it’s kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can’t be a good coach because I was a great athlete.
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My kids are no different than anyone else’s – they tend to disagree with everything I say!
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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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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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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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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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If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I’d choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.
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I don’t think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
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And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I’m really not that competitive.
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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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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits – good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.
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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 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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A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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