The Sochi Winter Olympics are starting in February and we couldn’t think of a better winter athlete to do our quote of the month than former NHL superstar Wayne Gretzky. Gretzky played 20 seasons in the National Hockey League for four teams from 1979 to 1999. He is the leading point scorer in NHL history and is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season. Gretzky has appeared in the Stanley Cup Finals 6 times with two different teams. He won the cup four times in a row with the Edmonton Oilers in the late-80s. Following his retirement, Gretzky went on to purchase a minority stake in the Phoenix Coyotes NHL franchise and would later become their head coach for five seasons. Gretzky made his first international appearance as a member of the Canadian national junior team at the 1978 World Junior Championships in Montreal, Quebec and Canada went on to win the bronze medal. Gretzky debuted with the Team Canada’s men’s team at the 1981 Canada Cup. He led the tournament in scoring with 12 points en route to a second-place finish to the Soviet Union. Gretzky would lead Canada to Gold in the 1984, 1987, and 1991 Canada Cups. Gretzky would help Canada win silver in the 1996 World Cup after the tournament was revived and renamed to the World Cup.

The 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan were the first Olympics where NHL players were allowed to participate. Expectations were high for the Canadian team, but the team lost to the Czech Republic in the semi-finals. Gretzky was Executive Director of the Canadian men’s hockey team at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Gretzky was the final Olympic torchbearer at the 2010 Winter Olympics and was named Special Advisor to the Canada men’s national ice hockey team. Gretzky had an uncanny ability to judge the position of the other players on the ice that many said that he played like he had ‘eyes in the back of his head’. His intelligence and reading of the game were unrivaled and he could consistently anticipate where the puck was going to be and execute the right move at the right time. This is what Gretzky would say when asked what makes a great hockey player…

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It’s a brand new year and we start off the new year with a new year’s resolution quote. Suze Orman is an American author, financial advisor, motivational speaker, and television host. After working for several financial and investment firms, Orman opened up her financial group called ‘The Suze Orman Financial Group’. In 2002, her program ‘The Suze Orman Show’ began airing on CNBC. She’s an accomplished author and has written several financial advice books with titles such as ‘The Road to Wealth’ and ‘The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life’. In addition, she writes a financial advice column for ‘O’ magazine and is a contributor to the ‘Philadelphia Inquirer’ newspaper. In this month’s quote, Orman discusses the pitfalls of making a financial resolution too soon…

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December is holiday season and we’re bringing another Christmas quote to you from famous child actress Shirley Temple. Temple is an American film and television actress, singer and dancer who began her career in 1932 at the age of three. In April 1934, ‘Stand Up and Cheer!’ became Temple’s breakthrough film. She would appear in several films for Fox Films Corporation and later with Twentieth Century Fox after the successful merger of Fox Films and Twentieth Century Pictures. Temple’s films were produced during the great depression and many of the themes of her films included optimism, hope and generosity which helped to liven up the spirits of the American public. A succession of films followed: ‘The Little Colonel’ , ‘Our Little Girl’, ‘Curly Top’ (with the signature song ‘Animal Crackers in My Soup’), and ‘The Littlest Rebel’ in 1935.Temple was very successful at licensing merchandise with her likeness for products such as dolls, sheet music, mirrors, girls dresses and other accessories. Before 1935 ended, Temple’s income from licensed merchandise royalties would exceed $100,000, doubling her income from her movies. As Temple grew older and matured as an actress, she became typecast by Hollywood and had a hard time adapting to different roles where she could no longer rely on her childish good looks and smile to win film roles. In 1950, she officially retired from film acting but would return to host a television anthology series and would make sporadic guest appearances on sitcoms. In her later years, Temple turned to politics and became a member of the Republican party where she was appointed United States Ambassador to Ghana in the 1970s and was later appointed United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia in the 1990s by former president George H. W. Bush. It didn’t take long for Shirley Temple to understand that she was famous at such an early age. In this month’s quote, Shirley Temple describes why she no longer believes in Santa Claus…

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The month of November is Thanksgiving time to our neighbours down south in the USA. This means a large turkey dinner with gravy for most households and the constant squabbling between family members. A funny person to discuss these events is American Humorist and bestselling author -Erma Bombeck. Bombeck achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s. Her columns have been read by over 30 millions readers in 900 different newspapers across Canada and the USA. Bombeck’s columns have also appeared in magazines such as ‘Reader’s Digest’, ‘Redbook’ and ‘Good Housekeeping Magazine’. In addition to writing, Bombeck participated in ABC’s Good Morning America from 1975 until 1986. She began doing brief commentaries which were recorded at Phoenix, and eventually did both gag segments and important interviews. Futhermore, Bombeck participated in the Presidential Advisory Committee for Women which helped with the final implementation of the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1986, She was the grand marshal for the 97th Tournament of Roses Parade and the parade’s theme was ‘A Celebration of Laughter’. Bombeck uses this month’s quote to discuss the importance of gravy in her household…

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October is Halloween time and this month gives us the chance to look around various search engines in need of a scary quote. We could think of no better film to scare us with a quote than Freddy Krueger’s ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’. Freddy Krueger is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ film series. Krueger was created by Wes Craven, and had been consistently portrayed by Robert Englund since his first appearance. In the 2010 remake, he was portrayed by Academy Award–nominee Jackie Earle Haley. Krueger is portrayed as a child killer who is eventually discovered and captured by the law, but escapes legal prosecution due to a technicality. He is hunted down by a mob of angry parents, and cornered in a boiler room where he used to take his victims. The mob douses the building with gasoline and sets it on fire, burning Krueger alive. While his physical form dies, his spirit lives on in the dreams of a group of teenagers living in his old neighborhood, who he preys on by entering their dreams and killing them. Krueger’s physical features can best be remembered by his signature clawed glove. The horror film series has gone on to make nine slasher films , various comic books and a television show (Freddy’s Nightmares) which was a horror anthology series starring Freddy Krueger as the show’s host. One, Two, Freddy’s Coming For You is a parody of the kid’s nursery rhyme,”One, Two, Buckle My Shoe”. This song is often to be Freddy Krueger’s theme song. It is sung by little children dressed in white party clothes jump-roping who are presumed to be the past victims of Freddy in his former life. Here is the quote in its entirety…

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