Wayne Gretzky Quotes About Hockey

Quotes about: Hockey

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  A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Athlete, Hockey
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  I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Wayne Gretzky (2000). “99 My Life in Pictures”, Mint Pub

• You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Teamwork, Hockey, Nhl

• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Dog

• I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Soccer, Baseball, Hockey

• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

• 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.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Baby, Hockey

• 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

  Sports, Successful, Hockey

  Interview With James Bassil, www.askmen.com.

• 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.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Children, Team

  Interview With James Bassil, www.askmen.com.

• Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights real?' I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

• People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

• He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, Nhl, Special

• Hullie's a lot like a garbage can. You step on the pedal with your foot and the top opens up.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, Nhl, Garbage Cans

• I don't think any one person will ever be bigger than the game.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, Thinking, Nhl

• You know, I've held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Baby, Hockey, Jewels

  Wayne Gretzky, Reilly, Rick (1990). “Gretzky, An Autobiography”, Harper & Collins

• The only way a kid is going to practise is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Fun, Kids, Hockey

  Wayne Gretzky, Reilly, Rick (1990). “Gretzky, An Autobiography”, Harper & Collins

• 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

  Athlete, Hockey, Nhl

• Eight days ago, we were the toast of the town. Eight days later we're Thanksgiving turkeys.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, Eight, Nhl

• I'm not sure Mario is going to get accolafes he deserves, especially from outside the game. But from within, the players, the people who follow closely, realize exactly what he's broughtto the table, exactly what he has done. People tend to forget... hockey was dying in Pittsburgh before he got there. I played there. It was almost dead. I'm sorry, but the NHL would not have a franchise in Pittsburgh today had Mario not come along. Think about it, no hockey in Pittsburgh.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sorry, Hockey, Player

• One of the key qualities that you need to be a great hockey player is fantastic anticipation and feel for the game - if you know where the puck is going before it is hit, that is half the battle.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, Player, Keys

• Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the game and I loved every minute of being a player, I loved coaching, I loved being involved in the NHL.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, Player, Nhl

• 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.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Hockey

• And people who know me would tell you that away from hockey I'm really not that competitive.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, People, Know Me

• I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Baseball, Hockey, Games

  Interview With James Bassil, www.askmen.com.

• Everything I did in hockey, I worked for.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Hockey, Concentration, Gifted

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