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.
WAYNE GRETZKYI love everything about hockey.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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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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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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When I played in a 21-team league, there were six or seven goalies who were just average, and the equipment and pads were smaller. I came in the right era. I played for the right team. It was all speed, and creativity and imagination.
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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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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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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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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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I love everything about hockey.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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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.
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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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You’ll never catch me bragging about goals, but I’ll talk all you want about my assists.
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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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A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
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