Herb Brooks Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. You're only as good as your values.

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#3. Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions!

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#4. Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.

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#5. The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen,

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#6. Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

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#7. 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.

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#8. You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

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#9. 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.

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#10. You must have goals in your life, or otherwise be prepared to be used by those who do have them.

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#11. Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

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#12. You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

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#13. The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back.

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#14. 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.

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#15. You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.

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#16. Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

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#17. 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.

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

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#19. The legs feed the wolf

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

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#21. This, is your time! Now go out there and take it!

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

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#23. 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.

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

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

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#26. 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.

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

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#28. My recruiting key - I looked for PEOPLE first, athletes second. I wanted people with a sound value system as you cannot buy values. You're only as good as your values. I learned early on that you do not put greatness into people ... but somehow try to pull it out.

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#29. 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!

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