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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.

Wayne Gretzky

When you’re playing an exhibition, you’re kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Kind Let Go Opportunity Play Yourself
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Best Couple Friendship Himself Hockey Practice Season Skate Sports Struggle Support
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.”
WAYNE GRETZKY

Children Goal Memories Myself People Place Sports
The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Day Growth Learning Missing Sports Stop Yourself
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Best Game Hard Player Process Sports Worst
If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I’d choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Choice Myself Player Start
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.”
WAYNE GRETZKY

Book Children Learning Myself Reading Story Tradition Writing
I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it’s a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you’re in the NHL.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Complaint Gift God Hands Kind Life Myself People Talent Thinking Tough
At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Day Disappoint End Lost Ourselves
Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don’t know. That’s got to be tough.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Alone Art Myself Skate Sports Tough
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Best Game Hard Player Process Sports Worst
Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Difference Myself Player Sports Trick
Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Direction Each Other Guy Help Hockey Sports Success Team Yourself
One hundred percent of shots not taken don’t go in.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Goal Sports Win
Your friends, family, and kids have to understand that’s your priority. It’s the only way you can be successful.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Family Friendship Priority Success Understand Yourself
It’s easier to lose than to win.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Easy Lose One Liner Win

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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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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