When you’re playing an exhibition, you’re kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.
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More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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Maybe it wasn’t the talent the Lord gave me-maybe it was the passion.
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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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It’s an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
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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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There’s no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you’re sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.
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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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As 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.
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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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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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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.
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I don’t think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
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When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn’t make the NHL. Now it’s kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can’t be a good coach because I was a great athlete.
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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.
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My kids are no different than anyone else’s – they tend to disagree with everything I say!
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We’re in a tough situation because of teenage children, and then we have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, so my family and my responsibilities is sort of a juggle.
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The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can’t replace that experience with anything.
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Sometimes people ask, ‘Are hockey fights real?’ I say, ‘If they weren’t, I’d get in more of them.
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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.
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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.
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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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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don’t take the shot.
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You’ll never catch me bragging about goals, but I’ll talk all you want about my assists.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.
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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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