Quote
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
A psychologist's note: why this works
Gretzky turns the logic of fear of failure inside out: the shot you don't take is already a hundred-percent miss, just a "safe" one. Avoidance doesn't protect the result, it zeroes it.
In sport this is about being willing to act under uncertainty. The more often an athlete allows themselves to take a risk and get it wrong, the less power fear holds — and the better they actually perform over the long run.
Themes of this quote
When a sports psychologist helps
If the theme lands, read the breakdowns of what athletes go through, take a test, or pick a sports psychologist.