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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.

Wayne Gretzky

In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Gold Myself Reward Win
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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Greatness Myself Remember Story Talk Thinking Time Win
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Advice Death Happiness Sick Success
A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Ability Hockey Myself Practice Skill Sports Time
Maybe it wasn’t the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Inspirational Motivational Passion Talent
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
Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Hockey Inspirational One Liner Sports Work
One hundred percent of shots not taken don’t go in.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Goal Sports Win
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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It’s kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn’t make the NHL.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Heart Broken Kind Myself Rejection Slow Small Sports
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don’t think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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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

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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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I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn’t make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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It doesn’t matter what I think. It doesn’t matter what other people think. You have to get on the ice and participate and play and the best team wins.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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I wasn’t naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that’s the way I’ll be as a coach.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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I’m probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don’t worry about it.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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I miss all the shots I don’t take.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It’s what I love the most.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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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.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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You know, I’ve held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it’s total fun for him and it was for me.
WAYNE GRETZKY

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I love everything about hockey.
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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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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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