I can’t remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.
WAYNE GRETZKYI can’t remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.
WAYNE GRETZKYThe highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
WAYNE GRETZKYCanadian 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.
WAYNE GRETZKYHockey 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.
WAYNE GRETZKYThe only way a kid is going to practice is if it’s total fun for him and it was for me.
WAYNE GRETZKYI miss all the shots I don’t take.
WAYNE GRETZKYThe 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 GRETZKYWhat 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 GRETZKYCompetitive 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.
WAYNE GRETZKYSometimes people ask, ‘Are hockey fights real?’ I say, ‘If they weren’t, I’d get in more of them.
WAYNE GRETZKYThere’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.
WAYNE GRETZKYI 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.
WAYNE GRETZKYI 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.
WAYNE GRETZKYI love everything about hockey.
WAYNE GRETZKYI 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 GRETZKYWhen 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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