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Bill Holman is a legend in jazz who has touched virtually every big band, from schools to touring professional bands, through his writing.


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WAYNE GRETZKY I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything ab...
WAYNE GRETZKY When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figu...
WAYNE GRETZKY The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
WAYNE GRETZKY It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
WAYNE GRETZKY Listen, everything I have in my life is because of the NHL and because of hockey, and I love the gam...
WAYNE GRETZKY Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their ca...
WAYNE GRETZKY I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest ...
WAYNE GRETZKY I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one anot...
WAYNE GRETZKY Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
WAYNE GRETZKY I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without e...
WAYNE GRETZKY I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, a...
WAYNE GRETZKY Growing up, I was always the small guy.
WAYNE GRETZKY I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
WAYNE GRETZKY Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.
WAYNE GRETZKY You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
WAYNE GRETZKY I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and ship...
WAYNE GRADY America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if y...
WAYNE GRADY Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
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