Wayne Gretzky

It’s not God-given, it’s Wally-given.

Wayne Gretzky

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

Most people marry their mother. I married my father.

Wayne Gretzky

My kids are no different than anyone else’s – they tend to disagree with everything I say!

Wayne Gretzky

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

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

Wayne Gretzky

That’s all hockey is: open ice. That’s my whole strategy: find open ice.

Wayne Gretzky

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

Wayne Gretzky

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

Wayne Gretzky

There’s no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you’re sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.

Wayne Gretzky