Words Of Wisdom – Wayne Gretzky

To celebrate the hockey season we gathered up some words of wisdom from the NHL’s all time leading scorer Wayne Gretzky. Wayne is also well known as “The Great One” is considered by many to be the greatest hockey player of all time. He played much of his NHL career with the Edmonton Oilers, winning four Stanley Cups.

The history-making number 99 also Wayne Gretzky holds or shares 61 NHL records: 40 for the regular season, 15 for the Stanley Cup playoffs and six for the NHL All-Star Game.

He Started Young

This hockey hero got born in Brantford, Ontario Canada in 1961 started out on the ice early. His father Walter built the family an ice rink in their backyard and he started skating at only two years old.

Through practicing and drills his father designed, Wayne became a great hockey player at an early age. At six years old, an already-impressive Gretzky joined a hockey league with many players up to four years older and still excelling at the game.

Gretzky first played professional hockey for Edmonton Oilers of the World Hockey Association at the age of 17. After the WHA went out of business a year later, the Edmonton Oilers moved to the National Hockey League (NHL) and Wayne went with them. The first year he played he was named the NHL MVP, a title he would earn for the next 8 years in a row.

Legendary Career

Throughout his NHL career, he would be traded and play several seasons with the Los Angeles Kings and finished off his career at the New York Rangers. Gretzky’s scoring was legendary. He Left hockey holding 40 regular season records and 15 playoff records. Following his retirement in 1999, Gretzky became the ninth and final player to be immediately ushered into the Hall of Fame and the first in history to have his jersey number retired league-wide.

Though he retired from playing hockey, he has kept busy holding positions as minority owner and Head Coach of the Phoenix Coyotes, Executive Director of 2002’s Gold Medal-winning Canadian Men’s Olympic Hockey team, owner of the popular Toronto bar and restaurant Wayne Gretzky’s, winemaker with the celebrated Wayne Gretzky Estates Winery, and philanthropist with his own Wayne Gretzky Foundation and other charitable causes.

Read some of “The Great One’, Wayne Gretzky’s inspiring words of wisdom below. SOURCES: DUCKSTER, BIOGRAPHY, WWW.GRETZKY.COM

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