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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

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.
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Direction Each Other Guy Help Hockey Sports Success Team 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.
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Best Game Hard Player Process Sports Worst
A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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Ability Hockey Myself Practice Skill Sports Time
The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can’t replace that experience with anything.
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Experience Greatness Play Sports Win Yourself
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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Animal Better Habit Human Pressure Situation 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
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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Big Fast Myself Play Strong Way
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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Love Myself Play Proud Sports Win
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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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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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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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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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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Compliment Hard Work Myself Pay 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.
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Myself People Play Thinking Yourself
One hundred percent of shots not taken don’t go in.
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And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I’m really not that competitive.
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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.
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Day Growth Learning Missing Sports Stop Yourself
Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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Father Marriage Mom Myself
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
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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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Best Goal Help Important Need Player Sports Time Yourself
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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Fight Game Myself Remember Sports Time
I miss all the shots I don’t take.
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Missing Myself One Liner Sports
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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Blessing Children Feeling Goodness Happiness Level Myself Play
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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Bad Game Goodness Habit Key Play Rival Yourself
I heard people say, ‘Why would he want to do this?’ My answer is ‘Why not?’ It is what I love. It’s what I know.
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Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.
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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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