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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.

Wayne Gretzky

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

Day Growth Learning Missing Sports Stop Yourself
And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I’m really not that competitive.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Competition Hockey Myself People Sports Talk
It’s easier to lose than to win.
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Easy Lose One Liner Win
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

Complaint Gift God Hands Kind Life Myself People Talent Thinking Tough
We’re in a tough situation because of teenage children, and then we have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, so my family and my responsibilities is sort of a juggle.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Children Family Myself Responsibility Situation Tough
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.”
WAYNE GRETZKY

Greatness Myself Remember Story Talk Thinking Time Win
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Battle Feeling Game Greatness Hockey Key Need Player Quality Yourself
I miss all the shots I don’t take.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Missing Myself One Liner Sports
I don’t think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Big Game Myself Person Thinking Worth
Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Best Defeat Failure Inspirational Lose
Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don’t know. That’s got to be tough.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Alone Art Myself Skate Sports Tough
I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Believe Big Play Season Skate Sports Yourself
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Best Father Financial Money Myself Son Thankful Youth
A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Ability Hockey Myself Practice Skill Sports Time
Your friends, family, and kids have to understand that’s your priority. It’s the only way you can be successful.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Family Friendship Priority Success Understand Yourself
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Big Fast Myself Play Strong Way
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Missing Sports Yourself
We feel fortunate [with Canada hockey team]. We have got a lot of guys who love to play, but they also love to win even more. We are pretty happy. Although we are young, we like our group of players.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Fortunate Happiness Love Play Player Team Win Young
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Important Injury Lose Play Player Start World
The only way a kid is going to practice is if it’s total fun for him and it was for me.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Children Fun Game Myself Practice Sports
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
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Battle Feeling Game Greatness Hockey Key Need Player Quality Yourself
If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I’d choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Choice Myself Player Start
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Care End Hide Hockey Kind Myself Sports Touch Yourself
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Compliment Hard Work Myself Pay Yourself
My best friend had a hockey scholarship at Ohio State, so I would get a couple of pairs at the beginning of the season and send them down to him. They practised two hours a day. He’d skate in them for three weeks then ship them back.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Best Couple Friendship Himself Hockey Practice Season Skate Sports Struggle Support
You’ll never catch me bragging about goals, but I’ll talk all you want about my assists.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Attitude Goal Help Myself Sports Talk Team Yourself

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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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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