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 GRETZKYWe 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.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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I love everything about hockey.
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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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It’s just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you’ve held up the Stanley Cup.
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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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When you’re playing an exhibition, you’re kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.
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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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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.
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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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Kids don’t fight in minor hockey anymore. There’s very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys are not fighting.
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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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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
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Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.
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In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.
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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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