Herb Brooks Quotes

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Herb Brooks

Profession : Coach

Birth : August 5, 1937

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

Herb Brooks

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

Herb Brooks

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

Herb Brooks

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.

Herb Brooks

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.

Herb Brooks

Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.

Herb Brooks

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

Herb Brooks

I'm a dreamer.

Herb Brooks

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.

Herb Brooks

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

Herb Brooks