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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky

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Wayne Gretzky
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 26
Ice Hockey Coach
Ice Hockey Player
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The Corporation of the City of Brantford
The Great One
Wayne Douglas Gretzky
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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.
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Kids don't fight in minor hockey anymore. There's very few fights in junior and college hockey. So growing up, all these guys are not fighting.
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People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.
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I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.
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One hundred percent of shots not taken don't go in.
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I don't think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
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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 heard people say, 'Why would he want to do this?' My answer is 'Why not?' It is what I love. It's what I know.
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Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.
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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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I have recall. I don't know why or how. I had a guy once who said he played against me in novice [league, for kids under nine], for the Detroit Lasers. And I said, Oh yeah, we beat you in the tournament, 8-1 and I think I scored seven goals, and the goalie was left-handed. And he was, Oh my God. I was the goalie! .
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I can't remember the last time I went to a game and there was a fight. I think they fight more in baseball now than they do in hockey.
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It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
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I just like to keep my money in the bank I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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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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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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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!
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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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