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• Was born on January 26, 1961, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, of Russian and Polish descent.
• His father, Walter, had hoped himself to become a hockey player but was discouraged because of his size.
• Wayne displayed an early interest in skating and recieved his first pair of skates when he was 3 years old. He learned how to skate on the Ninth River near his grandfather's farm in Canning, Ontario, and at public rinks on weekends. But it was the rink built for him by his father behind the little house on Varadi Avenue in Brantford that recieve the acclaim of being the birthplace of his skating skills.
• He was only 6 years old when he saw his first year in organized hockey, scoring one goal, the lowest yearly total of his career. As a 9 year old in 1970-71 he scored 196 goals in 76 games, with 120 assists. The next year he scored 278 goals in 82 games.
• In 1972-73 he scored 105 goals in the major pee wee league, and in 1974-75 he scored 90 goals in the major bantam league.
• During his career Gretzky, a left-handed shooting center, developed a style that was as distinctive as it was exciting to watch. Listed in the program as 6 feet and 170 pounds, he always stayed away from fights, preferring to drift and glide around the ice.
• In becoming the leading scorer in NHL history, he set a new record for assists (more than 1,300) in just 12 seasons. In 1989, he passed his idol Gordie Howe's all-time point record of 1,850. Howe supported Gretzky, according to Maclean's and called Gretzky "a great kid," and "great for hockey."
• He was centre and captain for the Edmonton Oilers (1979-88), he lead the team to 4 Stanley Cup Victories, becoming the first player to average more then 2 points a game.
• He was traded successively to the Los Angeles Kings (1988), the St. Louis Blues (1996), and the New York Rangers (1996). When he ended his career in 1999, he held 61 National Hockey League (NHL) records. He holds the all-time NHL records for goals (894), assists (1,963), and points (2,857), as well as corresponding seasonal records (92 goals, 163 assists, 215 points). He is the only player to have led the league in scoring for seven consecutive years (1980 – 87) and the only one named most valuable player for eight consecutive seasons (1979 – 87).
• Wayne has a altenative name or a nickname and it is "The Great One".
• His 47 playoff points in 1985 and 31 assists in 1988 are still records for a single post-season round, and he holds the record for career playoff goals (122), assists (260), points (382), hat tricks (10), and game winning goals (24).
• Gretzky set impressive records in both regular season and post-season play, holding the record for most career regular season goals (894), assists (1,963), points (2,857), and hat tricks (50).
• The regular season records include most goals in a season (92), most assists in a season (163), and most points in a season (215). He also holds the record for the fastest 50 goals, accomplishing that feat in only 39 games and the record for most goals in a 50 game period (61, which he accomplished twice). In 1983-84, he had a 51-game point-scoring streak that has been compared to "Joltin' Joe" DiMaggio's streak in baseball, during which he scored 61 goals and received credit for 92 assists (153 points).