Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don’t take the shot.
WAYNE GRETZKYThe 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.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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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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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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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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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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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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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 can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It’s what I love the most.
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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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Nothing can replace the Olympics. I love the Olympics. I was so proud when I played in ’98 and I was so proud when we won in 2002.
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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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I wasn’t naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that’s the way I’ll be as a coach.
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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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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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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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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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