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Competitive 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.

Wayne Gretzky

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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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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 have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it’s a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you’re in the NHL.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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We played in an era where you were taught to hate your opponent. But life changes. I raise my kids differently than my mom and dad raised their kids.
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Your friends, family, and kids have to understand that’s your priority. It’s the only way you can be successful.
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Competitive 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.
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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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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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Lifting the Stanley Cup for the first time. There’s nothing like it. It’s the greatest story. In my era, they used to say you couldn’t be a superstar without winning one. I remember thinking when I lifted it: “Now they can’t say that about me.”
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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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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.
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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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At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.
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Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.
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If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I’d choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.
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It’s easier to lose than to win.
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Competitive 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.

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Competitive 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.

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