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You miss the ball you do not hit 100%
Wayne Gretzky
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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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More quotes by Wayne Gretzky
I miss all the shots I don't take.
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I miss 100% of the shots I don't take.
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As a player, you have one responsibility, to focus yourself and be ready for the game. As a coach, your responsibility is to get 20 guys ready and have them all on the same page. If you can't get every guy ready every night, you're going to struggle.
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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.
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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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My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.
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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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At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.
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I'm probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don't worry about it.
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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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It's really hard. And it's harder today because of the salary cap. It starts in September at training camp - getting every guy on the same page, being as mentally and physically as focused as you can be. Then in April and May, you basically spend eight weeks practising, watching video and playing games. That's your life.
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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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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.
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Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don't take the shot.
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I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.
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Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull and Jean BĂ©liveau probably looked at us in the '80s and said, These guys are soft. We used to take the train.
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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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