Wayne Gretzky Quotes

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.

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

When you win, say nothing, when you lose say less.

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

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

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take

Dad, they used to tell Wayne Gretzky that he was to small, and that he would never make the NHL look at him now I replied

Hockey great Wayne Gretzky said, “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. —ATTRIBUTED TO WAYNE GRETZKY

You miss one-hundred percent of the shots you never take—“ Wayne Gretzky

The biggest differentiator between a studio that creates a really high-quality game and a studio that doesn’t isn’t the quality of the team,” said one person who worked on Destiny. “It’s their dev tools. If you can take fifty shots on goal, and you’re a pretty shitty hockey player, and I can only take three shots on goal and I’m Wayne fucking Gretzky, you’re probably going to do better. That’s what tools are. It’s how fast can you iterate, how stable are they, how robust are they, how easy is it as a nontechnical artist to move a thing.

Canadiens’ Carey Price, who might be the best in the world right now,

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

I was at a party in Beverly Hills, and everyone in sports was there. Magic Johnson, Wayne Gretzky, Kareem. And I spotted my idol—Hank Aaron! I walked up to him and introduced myself. He said, “I know who you are. You made a great decision going to the USFL.” I was shocked. Then he leaned in and whispered, “Tom, you always have to get the money. Get the fucking money. Because they don’t care about you.” —Tom Ramsey, quarterback, Los Angeles Express

Jon Rubinstein, who was in charge of hardware, adapted the microprocessor and guts of the PowerMac G3, Apple’s high-end professional computer, for use in the proposed new machine. It would have a hard drive and a tray for compact disks, but in a rather bold move, Jobs and Rubinstein decided not to include the usual floppy disk drive. Jobs quoted the hockey star Wayne Gretzky’s maxim, “Skate where the puck’s going, not where it’s been.” He was a bit ahead of his time, but eventually most computers eliminated floppy disks.

Graceful? There’s a never-ending worldwide shortage. Graceful is artistic, elegant, subtle and effective. Graceful makes things happen and brings light but not heat. Graceful doesn’t mean invisible, hiding, fearful or by the book. And graceful certainly doesn’t include hectoring, lecturing or bullying. Audrey Hepburn was graceful. Wayne Gretzky too. A graceful person gets things done, but does it in a way you’d be happy to have repeated. A graceful person raises the game of everyone nearby, causing a race to the top, not the bottom. Graceful is the person we can’t live without, the one who makes a difference. The linchpin. Everywhere I turn, I see people bringing grace to their families, their communities and their work. The thing is, no one is born graceful. It’s not a gift, it’s a choice. Every day, we get a chance to give others the benefit of the doubt. Every day, we get the opportunity to give others our support, our confidence and our trust. And yet most days, we hesitate. There are so many things on our agenda, so many people who want a piece of us, so many things to do, so many obligations—of course it’s tempting to merely get it done, to phone it in. None of those shortcuts will make the impact you’re capable of making, and none of those approaches will bring you closer to those you’re here to serve. The industrial age is ending, and a new one is beginning. It produces art instead of stuff and it rewards gracefulness.

It is always better to fail than do nothing. As Wayne Gretzky put it, “You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Your only “security” is knowing what you do well. Knowing your areas of competence will give you freedom amid corporate politics and unexpected layoffs. Wayne Gretzky was once asked why he was such a great hockey player. He responded with an eloquent morsel of wisdom: “I simply went to where the puck was going to be.” An average player would go where the puck was or is.

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

His approach to influencing Farandou was inspired by the maxim of his Canadian ice hockey hero, Wayne Gretzky: ‘Skate to where the puck is going, not to where it was.’ It was Chaiblaine’s reading of how the game might play out that gave him influence with Farandou, who liked him for being clever, analytical and ‘synthétique’, for synthesising options from a sea of information:

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky

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

Wayne Gretzky: “Siempre fallarás cien por ciento de los tiros que no hagas”.

There’s the story of the Kentucky Derby party when a group of famous people, including baseball star Cal Ripken, had cornered Julian to talk whiskey and Wayne Gretzky kept coming up and interrupting, until Julian finally wheeled around and said, “Why don’t you shut the fuck up, Wayne?

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

Athletes in general possess a relatively enlightened understanding of failure’s relationship to success. As Canadian ice hockey superstar Wayne Gretzky famously said, “You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don’t take.

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

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

Miss Hayes. The crazy maniac who happens to be my girlfriend. The kung-fu master who knocked me out with a Wayne Gretzky paper weight.

You will never get what you don’t ask for. You can’t find what you aren’t looking for. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. - Wayne Gretzky

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. - Wayne Gretzky

You miss 100% of the shots you don't make - Wayne Gretzky

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. - Wayne Gretzky

Hockey is a game that can be classified as field or ice. In ice hockey, the playing field is ice. In field hockey, grassy plains or artificial structures are used. Two teams use their sticks to hit a puck across the field and into a goal. This is a popular game that is played in many countries and its most famous athlete is Wayne Gretzky,

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

As Daniel Coyle points out in The Little Book of Talent, successful athletes don’t just fail during games. They go out of their way to seek out failure during practice. Hockey great Wayne Gretzky, for example, would often fall flat on the ice during skating exercises. It’s not that he’d forgotten how to skate. He was deliberately pushing his boundaries, experimenting with the limits of his ability. When practice is effortless, Coyle argues, learning stops. It’s by walking the precipice between your current abilities and the skills just beyond your reach that growth happens. Master performers don’t get to where they are by playing at the same level day after day. They do so by risking failure and using the feedback to master new skills.

Like Wayne Gretzky says, go where the puck is going, not where it is.

The Great One” Wayne Gretzky.

As I lay in bed before leaving for practice, I looked over on my wall and saw the collage of hockey players I did when I was 6 years old for art class. Next to that was a Pittsburgh Penguins pennant and below that was a poster of Wayne Gretzky. It was this really cool photo of him on a pond standing by a net with his Edmonton Oilers jersey on.