Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don’t know. That’s got to be tough.
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.
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When you’re playing an exhibition, you’re kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.
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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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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.
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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.
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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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I don’t think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
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One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game – if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.
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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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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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I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It’s what I love the most.
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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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If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I’d choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.
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One hundred percent of shots not taken don’t go in.
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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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