Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we’re Thanksgiving turkeys.
WAYNE GRETZKYAs a player, you have one responsibility, to focus yourself and be ready for the game. As a coach, your responsibility is to get 20 guys ready and have them all on the same page. If you can’t get every guy ready every night, you’re going to struggle.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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It’s an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
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I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It’s what I love the most.
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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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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.
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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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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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Hockey is my life. I love every minute of it.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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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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Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.
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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.
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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.
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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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It’s easier to lose than to win.
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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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