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In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.

Wayne Gretzky

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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Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.
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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.
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I grew up such a fan. It was my life. Everything I did was hockey related and everything I have is because of hockey and the NHL.
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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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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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My kids are no different than anyone else’s – they tend to disagree with everything I say!
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I don’t think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
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I love everything about hockey.
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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 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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Sometimes people ask, ‘Are hockey fights real?’ I say, ‘If they weren’t, I’d get in more of them.
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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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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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I don’t like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don’t like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it’s essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
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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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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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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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People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.
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A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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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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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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Maybe it wasn’t the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.
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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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I love everything about hockey.
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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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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.

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