How the Golden Brett Went From Donuts to Greatness
“At age 17, Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux were already headed for greatness. At age 17, I was headed for donuts.
As an adolescent, I was a better candidate for Weight Watchers than the National Hockey League.
Fat chance anyone expected me to end up a $1-million-dollar-per-year hockey player. People saw me as a pudgy, fun-loving, music-crazed bum, cruising North Vancouver in a deathtrap 1975 Ford Pinto station wagon.”
– Brett Hull
I was reading Brett Hull's autobiography "Brett: His Own Story" and came across that gem of a quote above.
The son of NHL legend Bobby "The Golden Jet" Hull, here's a guy blessed with primo genetics.
Yet - he struggled with the game as a teenager.
He was lazy and lacked direction and a sense of purpose.
Paying zero attention to his diet and off-ice training, Hull would play midget hockey weighing a soft 215 pounds.
(His NHL weight hovered around 200 pounds)
Came nowhere close to leading his team in scoring.
Wasn't even the #1 right wing on their roster.
Not surprisingly, no junior team showed the slightest interest in Vancouver's only right winger who came with love handles.
At that point in Hull's life, any thoughts about the NHL were pure fantasy.
Yet a few short years later, he was a point-per-game player on a Calgary Flames team featuring prominent names like Joe Nieuwendyk, Lanny McDonald, Joe Mullen and Gary Roberts.
The rest, as they say, is history.
2 Stanley Cups.
3 back-to-back 70+ goal seasons.
1269 NHL games. 741 goals. 1391 points.
Famous World Cup victory over Canada in '96.
That infamous Cup-clinching OT goal for Dallas in '99.
(Was his foot in Hasek's crease or not??? Who cares!)
Not only that, Hull has scored more goals in a single season (86) than anyone else in the game not named Gretzky.
So what took the Golden Brett from donuts to greatness?
Realizing that even with the talent inherited from his dad, he'd have to take initiative and personal responsibility if he ever wanted to see his NHL dream come true.
He'd shoot pucks for three hours every day in the summer.
And, of course, put work in inside the weight room and at the dinner table to get rid of the excess flab that was slowing him down on the ice.
Hull may have been a lazy teenager when it came to living the athletic lifestyle. But he dropped his lousy habits that were holding him back, did a 180, and hopped aboard before the NHL train had left the station for good.
And what a career it turned out to be.
The point?
It's never too late to become the best hockey player you can be.
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Yunus Barisik
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