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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.

Wayne Gretzky

When you’re playing an exhibition, you’re kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.
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Kind Let Go Opportunity Play Yourself
If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I’d choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.
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Choice Myself Player Start
Sometimes people ask, ‘Are hockey fights real?’ I say, ‘If they weren’t, I’d get in more of them.
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No matter who you are, we’re creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.
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Animal Better Habit Human Pressure Situation Yourself
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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It really doesn’t matter or concern me what people are saying or who thinks who is the favorite. The bottom line is you have to play.
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Myself People Play Thinking Yourself
We feel fortunate [with Canada hockey team]. We have got a lot of guys who love to play, but they also love to win even more. We are pretty happy. Although we are young, we like our group of players.
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Fortunate Happiness Love Play Player Team Win Young
There’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.
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I miss all the shots I don’t take.
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Missing Myself One Liner Sports
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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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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It doesn’t matter what I think. It doesn’t matter what other people think. You have to get on the ice and participate and play and the best team wins.
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Best People Play Team Thinking Win Yourself
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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Greatness Myself Remember Story Talk Thinking Time Win
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 can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It’s what I love the most.
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Hockey Life Love Myself Passion Remember Sports
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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