«ESPN.com: The Great One». www.espn.com. Besøkt 3. juli 2024. «"If you look at a grandmaster in chess, he can look at a chessboard and he doesn't see 20 individual pieces. He sees a sequence. That's the same thing going on about Gretzky. He's seeing all other players in a kind of general pattern that he recognizes, that he processes instantly," says Malcolm Gladwell of "The New Yorker" about Wayne Gretzky on ESPN's SportsCentury show (Friday, December 17, 10:30 p.m. ET). | Gretzky, the most honored player in a team sport with nine MVP awards and the only NHL player to score more than 200 points in a season, was voted No. 5 among North American athletes of the 20th century by SportsCentury's distinguished 48-person panel.»
