At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.
WAYNE GRETZKYThe 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.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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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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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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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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I don’t think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
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There’s no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you’re sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.
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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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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 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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Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.
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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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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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Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don’t know. That’s got to be tough.
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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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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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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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