The only way a kid is going to practice is if it’s total fun for him and it was for me.
WAYNE GRETZKYCompetitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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He brings something special. I don’t know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn’t understand his answer.
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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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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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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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Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.
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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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I love everything about hockey.
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You’ll never catch me bragging about goals, but I’ll talk all you want about my assists.
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One hundred percent of shots not taken don’t go in.
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Canadian players have started to put more of an importance on the World Championships in the sense that as soon as they lose, they are called, they want to go play and they don’t go only on the basis of if they are injured.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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I miss all the shots I don’t take.
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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.”
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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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In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.
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