2 Playing Up

Chapter 2 Playing Up In Wayne's league, the uniforms were made for older, bigger kids. The top hung past his knees. It caught on his hockey stick. It made it hard to shoot. So Walter tucked the right side of the uniform—Wayne's shooting side— into his pants. It became Wayne's special look, right up to his final NHL game. That first year, six- year-old Wayne scored just one goal. Everyone

在韦恩的联盟里，队服是为大孩子们设计的。 陀螺垂过他的膝盖。 它被他的曲棍球棍夹住了。 这使得射击变得困难。于是沃尔特把制服的右边——也就是韦恩的射击侧——塞进裤子里。 直到他最后一场NHL比赛，这都成了韦恩的特别造型。 第一年，六岁的韦恩只进了一个球。 每个人都

on his team won a trophy. Except for Wayne. After the awards ceremony, he cried. Walter told Wayne to keep practicing. Keep working hard. And soon he'd have more trophies than he could imagine. Wayne listened. He practiced longer and harder. The next year he scored twenty-seven goals. The following year, 104. How did he improve? Every winter, whenever he could, Wayne would be outside skating. As he grew older, he'd skate before school and after school. He'd eat dinner in skates.

他的球队赢得了一个奖杯。除了韦恩。 颁奖典礼结束后，他哭了。 沃尔特告诉韦恩要继续练习。 继续努力工作。很快，他就会获得比他想象中更多的奖杯。 韦恩听着。他练习得更久、更努力。 第二年，他进了27个球。 第二年，104人。他是如何进步的？ 每年冬天，只要有时间，韦恩就会到外面溜冰。 随着年龄的增长，他会在上学前和放学后滑冰。 他会穿着溜冰鞋吃晚饭。

Then he'd go out again in the dark, a floodlight shining on the yard. Finally, at around 10:00 p.m., his mom and dad would insist Wayne come inside. In the warm weather, Wayne didn't stop. He hit pucks against the family farmhouse. Of course, Wayne broke a few windows. Once, his grandfather had just put in a new glass pane. Wayne let a puck fly. Crash! Broken again. Wayne practiced for hours on his own. But on weekends, neighborhood kids came to the backyard rink. He played against them all—no matter how old or how tough. And when they wanted to take a break and go to the movies? Wayne stayed on the ice.

然后他又在黑暗中出去，一盏泛光灯照在院子里。 最后，在晚上10点左右，他的父母坚持要韦恩进屋。 在温暖的天气里，韦恩没有停下来。 他对着家里的农舍打冰球。 当然，韦恩打碎了几扇窗户。 有一次，他的祖父刚装了一块新的玻璃。 韦恩让一个冰球飞了起来。崩溃!再次破碎。 韦恩独自练习了几个小时。 但在周末，邻居的孩子们会来后院溜冰场。 他和他们所有人都打过球——不管他们有多老，有多强壮。 当他们想休息一下，去看电影的时候呢？ 韦恩呆在冰上。

No one told him to practice. Not his father, not his mother. He just loved it. When Wayne turned ten, the same age as the

没有人告诉他练习。 不是他父亲，也不是他母亲。 他就是喜欢。韦恩十岁的时候，和那个

other players in the league, he scored 378 goals! It was a youth scoring record! The entire country took notice. Canadian newspaper reporters called Wayne "The Great One" and "The Great Gretzky." The nicknames stuck. Wayne didn't really like them. He liked "Gretz." That's what his friends called him. Wayne felt embarrassed by the fuss. Confident on the ice, he was quiet off. He didn't talk a lot. He didn't like the spotlight. Still, there were interviews on radio and TV. Dinners and award shows. Banners hung at away games. They said, "See Wayne Gretzky, ten year-old scoring ace." Kids his own age asked for his autograph. Sometimes, going into games, Wayne switched team jackets with another player so people wouldn't stop him. At home, no one paid any more attention to him than to his brothers or sister. And that's how he liked it. Wayne's family didn't have a lot of money. Their home was small. Wayne shared a room with his brothers. It was barely big enough for

在联赛其他球员中，他进了378个球！这是青少年的进球纪录！整个国家都注意到了。 加拿大报纸记者称韦恩为“伟大的人”和“伟大的格雷茨基”。 这些绰号一直沿用至今。韦恩并不喜欢他们。 他喜欢《格雷茨》。他的朋友都这么叫他。 韦恩对这种大惊小怪感到尴尬。 他在冰上很自信，但在场外却很安静。 他不怎么说话。他不喜欢聚光灯。 尽管如此，电台和电视上还是有采访。 晚宴和颁奖典礼。在客场比赛时悬挂的横幅。 他们说：“去找韦恩·格雷茨基，十岁的得分高手。” 和他同龄的孩子向他要签名。 有时候，在比赛中，韦恩和另一个球员交换队服，这样人们就不会阻止他。 在家里，谁也不重视他，不重视他的兄弟姐妹。 他就是这么喜欢的。 韦恩的家庭并不富裕。 他们的家很小。韦恩和他的兄弟们合住一个房间。 它勉强够

the beds. SPORTS AND THE GRETZKY SIBLINGS KEITH, FIVE YEARS YOUNGER THAN WAYNE, PLAYED AND COACHED FOR MINOR LEAGUE HOCKEY TEAMS. HE WAS NAMED DIRECTOR OF AMATEUR SCOUTING FOR THE BOSTON BRUINS IN 2013. BRENT, TWELVE YEARS YOUNGER THAN WAYNE, PLAYED FOR THE NHL'S TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING FROM 1993 TO 1995. HE FACED OFF AGAINST WAYNE IN HIS SECOND GAME AS A PRO. GLEN WAS BORN SEVEN YEARS AFTER WAYNE, WITH A TWISTED FOOT THAT COULDN'T BE PUT FLAT ON THE GROUND. HE WASN'T ABLE TO PLAY MUCH ORGANIZED HOCKEY. BUT ACCORDING TO WAYNE, GLEN PRACTICED EVEN HARDER THAN HE

床。比韦恩小五岁的基思是小联盟曲棍球队的队员和教练。 2013年，他被任命为波士顿棕熊队的业余球探主管。 布伦特比韦恩小12岁，从1993年到1995年在nhl的坦帕湾闪电队打球。 在他作为职业球员的第二场比赛中，他面对韦恩。 格伦比韦恩晚出生7年，他的一只脚扭伤了，无法平躺在地上。 他不能很有组织地打冰球。 但据韦恩说，格伦练习得比他还刻苦