Quote

You miss every shot you don't take.

Wayne Gretzky

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Shots
Missing
Take
Every
Shot
Miss

More quotes by Wayne Gretzky

Image
Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
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.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
Listen, first of all, my wife is my best friend. My love for her is deeper than anything. The reality is, I'm not involved, I wasn't involved and I'm not going to be involved. Am I concerned for both of them Sure there's concern from me. I'm more worried about them than me. I'm like you guys, I'm trying to figure it all out.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
One hundred percent of shots not taken don't go in.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
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.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
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.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
In one sense we are a favorite because we won a gold medal in 2002.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
I really wanted to write a book [99: Stories of the Game] on the tradition and history of the league, where kids can pick it up and read it and learn things and say, Geez, I didn't know that. That's pretty cool.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
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.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
Not doing it is certainly the best way to not getting it
Wayne Gretzky
Image
The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can't replace that experience with anything.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
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.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
When I broke into professional hockey at 17 I was told that I was too small and too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL. Now it's kind of flip-flopped and the sense is I can't be a good coach because I was a great athlete.
Wayne Gretzky
Image
If I had to pick three players to start a franchise, I'd choose Hasek, Peter Forsberg and Eric Lindros.
Wayne Gretzky