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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.

Wayne Gretzky

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Wayne Gretzky
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 26
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The Corporation of the City of Brantford
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Wayne Douglas Gretzky
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Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we're Thanksgiving turkeys.
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And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.
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The only way a kid is going to practise is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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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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Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.
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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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I have absolutely no complaints about my life. But people think I got handed everything, all this kind of fell in my lap, that I was just God-gifted with all this talent. I wanted people to realize it's a lot tougher than just waking up one day and you're in the NHL.
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Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull and Jean Béliveau probably looked at us in the '80s and said, These guys are soft. We used to take the train.
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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 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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