Herb Brooks Quotes (14 Quotes)

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

Nine out of ten time we play this team, the would beat us. But not tonight because tonight is our night, tonight we win.

I remember sitting with Brooks in his office, in late December 1999, not long after he'd taken over as coach of the Jaromir Jagr -controlled Penguins. It was a job Brooks didn't even want, and when the season ended he would relinquish it. Yet he seized the team with all his gusto. I want speed, and excitement and I want our players to go out there and have the times of their lives, ... We're not going to be hanging around waiting for something to happen. We're going to make things happen ourselves.

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.

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

If you give 99 percent, you will make my job very easy.

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.

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

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.

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

Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.

I'm a dreamer.