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
Sometimes people ask, ‘Are hockey fights real?’ I say, ‘If they weren’t, I’d get in more of them.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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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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Sometimes people ask, ‘Are hockey fights real?’ I say, ‘If they weren’t, I’d get in more of them.
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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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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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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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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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My kids are no different than anyone else’s – they tend to disagree with everything I say!
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In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.
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I don’t think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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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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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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It’s easier to lose than to win.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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