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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.
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
The Great One
Wayne Douglas Gretzky
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I don't think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.
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Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.
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Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be.
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My best friend had a hockey scholarship at Ohio State, so I would get a couple of pairs at the beginning of the season and send them down to him. They practised two hours a day. He'd skate in them for three weeks then ship them back.
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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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I miss all the shots I don't take.
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You miss every shot you don't take.
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