Wayne Gretzky Quotes

I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.

I think I'm a pretty good coach, but there are a lot of good coaches, a lot of young coaches.

High school coaches sometimes are better coaches than I am.

If you want to be a quarterback in this league or Pee-Wee, you've got to believe, 'Hey, I'm the guy.'

To me, personally, my development to become a head coach will be much better working for Coach Saban than necessarily going somewhere else because you learn every day that you're in there.

I never lost the desire to coach.

There were loads of managers who said, 'You have to concentrate on being a winger because you have more potential there.' But I was like, 'You can say what you want, but I'm a midfielder, and I know what's the best for me.'

I have been very fortunate to coach a lot of very good secondary players through the years.

I tried to listen to way too many voices in my first stint as a head coach. The second time around, I know what I want and how I want to do it.

I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.

I knew I wanted to coach at an early age.

I've been around a lot of great coaches in college and the NBA, and I knew Erik Spoelstra three months, and I told my wife, father, and brother that this guy is going to be a helluva coach.

I say this to women all the time: If you've got the passion, you believe in making change, and you've got an issue or policy or something that you want to do, believe in it. Have confidence in yourself. You can do it.

True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression in yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself.

I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.

Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence does not render him incautious, and too much diffidence does not render him intolerant. From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved.

If I'm going to be president, I will try the best I can, and I'm a very good dealmaker, believe me.

If you don't believe in yourself...nobo dy else will.

I guess to be an entrepreneur you have to have a large ego, enormous pride and an ability to inspire others to follow your lead.

A great leader has the ability to instill within his people confidence in themselves.

I never use a napkin on my lap at a restaurant...because I believe in myself.

The most important thing is for you to believe in what you are doing.

I always wanted to be an actor. I had the arrogance to believe I couldn't be anything else.

Work hard. Believe in yourself. It's not the publicity that sells the clothes, it's the woman.

I believe great people do things before they are ready.