I miss all the shots I don’t take.
WAYNE GRETZKYMy kids are no different than anyone else’s – they tend to disagree with everything I say!
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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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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By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I’m still healthy.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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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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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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I don’t think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
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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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The Power of WHO provides great lessons about how to succeed in business and in life. If you surround yourself with quality people and great friends, the sky’s the limit.
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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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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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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 wasn’t naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that’s the way I’ll be as a coach.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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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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Canadian players have started to put more of an importance on the World Championships in the sense that as soon as they lose, they are called, they want to go play and they don’t go only on the basis of if they are injured.
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