It’s just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you’ve held up the Stanley Cup.
WAYNE GRETZKYThankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, ‘This is what we’re going to do,’ and bought an annuity with it.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
-
-
He brings something special. I don’t know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn’t understand his answer.
WAYNE GRETZKY -
The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can’t replace that experience with anything.
WAYNE GRETZKY -
Hockey is my life. I love every minute of it.
WAYNE GRETZKY -
I really wanted to write a book [99: Stories of the Game] on the tradition and history of the league, where kids can pick it up and read it and learn things and say, “Geez, I didn’t know that. That’s pretty cool.”
WAYNE GRETZKY -
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
WAYNE GRETZKY -
I love everything about hockey.
WAYNE GRETZKY -
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
WAYNE GRETZKY -
That’s the hardest part of this whole process. The best part is picking the players and the worst part is telling basically five players they are not going to play tonight.
WAYNE GRETZKY -
That’s the hardest part of this whole process. The best part is picking the players and the worst part is telling basically five players they are not going to play tonight.
WAYNE GRETZKY -
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY -
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
WAYNE GRETZKY -
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.
WAYNE GRETZKY -
By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I’m still healthy.
WAYNE GRETZKY -
It’s an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
WAYNE GRETZKY -
When you’re playing an exhibition, you’re kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.
WAYNE GRETZKY