Wayne Gretzky Quotes
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
''We've got new adventures ahead of us and new horizons."
"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."
"I don't think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.”
"The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it."
''I kept going every night, played 80 games every year as hard as I could, whether it was Oct. 1 or April 1.
"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."
"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."
"Whether it's now, next year or 20 years from now, I'm also going to miss the National Hockey League and the game of hockey."
"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."
''I felt like I'd never done enough. If I had three goals, I wanted five goals. If I had seven points, I wanted to get the eighth point,''
''It's a game, but it's something we all love to do. We go every day to get better and better. We go to win and we go to be the best we can be."
“I prepared myself for each and every game…approached each game like it was a Stanley Cup playoff game... I felt like a kid every single day.”
"Asked wat his dream was now that his playing days were through, Gretzky gave a laugh and said: "That I can come back and play again, like I did when I was 20."
"But I said this before: I was going to retire one time, one time officially and I'm officially retired. I probably miss the game more than the game misses Wayne Gretzky."
"Before anything needs to be done about Wayne Gretzky, we need to address people like Gordie Howe and Bobby Orr... I'm way down the totem pole on that one."
"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."
"(Sportswriters) call it peripheral vision... "I call it fear. Growing up, I was always the small guy. When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them. When I was 14, I played against 20-year-olds, and when I was 17, I played with men."
Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com
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