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Wayne Gretzky
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 26
Ice Hockey Coach
Ice Hockey Player
Restaurateur
The Corporation of the City of Brantford
The Great One
Wayne Douglas Gretzky
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The best players in the game want the responsibility of being the best player. The reality is the game has changed from now back to '87. It's a lot tighter checking. The players are better today. So, that makes it harder for him just in that fact. We can't rely solely on Mario [Lemieux] to carry this team. We're not relying on that.
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We're in a tough situation because of teenage children, and then we have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, so my family and my responsibilities is sort of a juggle.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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It's easier to lose than to win.
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It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL
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It's just amazing how many companies suddenly want you to hold up their products after you've held up the Stanley Cup.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.
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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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You miss every shot you don't take.
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You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.
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What you want to do with your best players is, it doesn't matter how many goals and assists they get, but when they get goals and assists. The best players get them at the most important times, and that's when we need those guys to come through.
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The only shot I ALWAYS miss, is the one I don't take!
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Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.
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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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My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!
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