Top 32 Quotes About Herb Brooks
#1. Herb Brooks, God rest his soul, wasn't coaching a Dream Team. He was coaching a team full of dreamers.
Jim Craig
#2. And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.
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#3. Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.
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#4. 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.
Herb Brooks
#5. Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.
Van Wyck Brooks
#6. You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
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#8. Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.
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#9. This, is your time! Now go out there and take it!
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#10. My idea of a good herbalist isn't someone who knows the uses of forty different herbs, but someone who knows how to use one herb in forty different ways.
Svevo Brooks
#11. 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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#12. This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
Herb Brooks
#13. You're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month.
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#14. 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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#15. If you give 99 percent, you will make my job very easy.
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#16. 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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#17. 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!
Herb Brooks
#18. You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.
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#19. 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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#20. The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back.
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#21. You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon
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#22. Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success
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#23. You must have goals in your life, or otherwise be prepared to be used by those who do have them.
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#24. 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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#25. You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.
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#26. 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.
Herb Brooks
#27. Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.
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#29. Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.
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#30. Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions!
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#32. 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
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