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.
WAYNE GRETZKYYou know, I’ve held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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Hockey is my life. I love every minute of it.
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The 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.
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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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My kids are no different than anyone else’s – they tend to disagree with everything I say!
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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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Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it.
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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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I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It’s what I love the most.
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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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It’s kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn’t make the NHL.
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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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He brings something special. I don’t know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn’t understand his answer.
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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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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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My best friend had a hockey scholarship at Ohio State, so I would get a couple of pairs at the beginning of the season and send them down to him. They practised two hours a day. He’d skate in them for three weeks then ship them back.
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