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A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Wayne Gretzky

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.
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Best Father Financial Money Myself Son Thankful Youth
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
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Missing Sports Yourself
Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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Best Defeat Failure Inspirational Lose
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
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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Best Goal Help Important Need Player Sports Time Yourself
Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don’t know. That’s got to be tough.
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Alone Art Myself Skate Sports Tough
My kids are no different than anyone else’s – they tend to disagree with everything I say!
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I really wanted to write a book [99: Stories of the Game] on the tradition and history of the league, where kids can pick it up and read it and learn things and say, “Geez, I didn’t know that. That’s pretty cool.”
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Book Children Learning Myself Reading Story Tradition Writing
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.”
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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.
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In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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Father Marriage Mom Myself
I couldn’t beat people with my strength; I don’t have a hard shot; I’m not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Inspirational Motivational Myself Passion Skate
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.
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If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I’d choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.
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A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

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