Your friends, family, and kids have to understand that’s your priority. It’s the only way you can be successful.
WAYNE GRETZKYSkating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don’t know. That’s got to be tough.
More Wayne Gretzky Quotes
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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 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.”
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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.
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I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don’t think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete.
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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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I can remember hockey. It was my life, my passion. It’s what I love the most.
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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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Hockey is my life. I love every minute of it.
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I don’t think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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I don’t like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don’t like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it’s essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
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I 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.
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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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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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