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

At the end of the day, everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.
- Wayne Gretzky

By no means am I Scotty Bowman, but I know the game, I love the game, I have a really good staff and we have a really good team. It's exciting. I haven't felt this way since I was 17.
- Wayne Gretzky

He just has to get off to the kind of start that he's capable of and it's as simple as that.
- Wayne Gretzky

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

I heard people say, 'Why would he want to do this?' My answer is 'Why not?' It is what I love. It's what I know.
- Wayne Gretzky

I missed the game.
- Wayne Gretzky

I remember walking by the dressing room before the gold medal game and the trainer said to me: `If it was a Game 7 in the playoffs, I probably wouldn't let him play he has such a bad knee.'
- Wayne Gretzky

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

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

I'll be honest with you, when I was 22, 23, 24, I never thought I'd be a coach in the NHL. But I'm excited about the challenge . . . . The last couple of weeks I've been following my son's baseball team around and I kind of got the itch to coach, as silly as that sounds.
- Wayne Gretzky

I'm thrilled to be back in the hot seat, ... This is what I love, what I know, and I felt I was the best person to coach this team. We finally feel like we've got a pretty good hockey club, and I wanted to be part of it, simple as that.
- Wayne Gretzky

It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL.
- Wayne Gretzky

Let me tell you, if Luongo doesn't play the way he did in the Czech game, we don't win the World Cup. It's as simple as that. And we now know what a guy like him can do.
- Wayne Gretzky

My answer is, why not? ... It's what I love, it's what I know. Glen Sather was the best coach that I had and what made him good was his confidence in what he did. I believe that I'm going to be a good coach.
- Wayne Gretzky

You look at what he did at the World Cup and what he did in the Stanley Cup final and all the way through the playoffs for Tampa Bay. He goes to another level. We love guys like that on our team.
- Wayne Gretzky