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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

Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Father Marriage Mom Myself
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 GRETZKY

Battle Feeling Game Greatness Hockey Key Need Player Quality Yourself
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Best Goal Help Important Need Player Sports Time Yourself
He brings something special. I don’t know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn’t understand his answer.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Different Himself Talk Team Understand Yourself
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
It really doesn’t matter or concern me what people are saying or who thinks who is the favorite. The bottom line is you have to play.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Myself People Play Thinking Yourself
People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Build Cheerful People Support Try
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
I don’t think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Big Game Myself Person Thinking Worth
I’m probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don’t worry about it.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Bad Goal Hockey Man Myself Sports Win Worry
I miss all the shots I don’t take.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Missing Myself One Liner Sports
I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn’t make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Achievement Children Live Myself Parents Pressure Thinking
A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Ability Hockey Myself Practice Skill Sports Time
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Inspirational Motivational Myself Passion Skate
My kids are no different than anyone else’s – they tend to disagree with everything I say!
WAYNE GRETZKY

Children Different Family Funny Myself Parents
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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Book Children Learning Myself Reading Story Tradition Writing

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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