Living with a nickname you are awarded at 10 years old is not exactly a recipe for success. Who you are as a pre-teen tends to have fairly little correlation to the adult you will eventually become, especially when it comes to the specific familiarties that make a nickname possible.
Luckily for Wayne Gretzky, his childhood nickname worked out just fine for him. Speaking at TNT’s broadcast desk during Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers, Gretzky explained how he eventually got dubbed as “The Great One” as a child.
