Herb Brooks Quotes


Herb Brooks

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

You`re looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.

And maybe I`m a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I`ve done.

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we`re too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

I`m a dreamer.

Maybe I`m sort of like the players - there`s still a lot of little boy in me.

This is your moment. You`re meant to be here.

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.

If I`d have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It`s a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment.

You`re playing worse and worse every day and right now you`re playing like it`s next month.