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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.”

Wayne Gretzky

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Goodness Greatness Hockey Inspirational Play Player Sports
It’s just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you’ve held up the Stanley Cup.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Company Fame Hold Yourself
A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Ability Hockey Myself Practice Skill Sports Time
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

Best Goal Help Important Need Player Sports Time Yourself
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

Job Love Myself People Sports
When people come up to me and say, “I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto,” or, “I saw your first goal in the NHL,” that triggers memories. But I don’t sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, “You know, one year I got 92 goals.”
WAYNE GRETZKY

Children Goal Memories Myself People Place Sports
I grew up such a fan. It was my life. Everything I did was hockey related and everything I have is because of hockey and the NHL.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Fans Growth Hockey Life Myself
The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits – good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Bad Game Goodness Habit Key Play Rival Yourself
Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we’re Thanksgiving turkeys.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Change Fame Funny Popular Thankful Time
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

Bad Goal Hockey Man Myself Sports Win Worry
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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The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can’t replace that experience with anything.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Experience Greatness Play Sports Win Yourself
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
Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Father Marriage Mom Myself
Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Best Defeat Failure Inspirational Lose
It really doesn’t matter or concern me what people are saying or who thinks who is the favorite. The bottom line is you have to play.
WAYNE GRETZKY

Myself People Play Thinking Yourself

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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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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