Herb Brooks Quotes.
Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.
Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.
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.
Success is won by those who believe in winning & then prepare for that moment. Many want to win, but how many prepare? That is the big difference. A sound value system held water then, holds water today, and will hold water in the future.
You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
You can’t be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon
When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates, and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. Get that through your head!
Success is won by those who believe in winning and then prepare for that moment.
The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen.
Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.
I’m a dreamer.
You win with people, not with talent. So the quality of the people is very important in building your team. I always looked for people with a solid value system. Then I recruited kids from a cross-section of different personalities, talents and styles of play.
This is your time. Their time is done. It’s over. I’m sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw ’em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it!
Win, lose, or tie, you’re gonna play like champions!
What is courage? Let me tell you what I think it is. An indefinable quality that makes a man put out that extra something, when it seems there is nothing else to give. I dare you to be better than you are. I dare you to be a thoroughbred.
You’re playing worse and worse every day and right now you’re playing like it’s next month.
Write your own book instead of reading someone else’s book about success
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.
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.
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.