Herb Brooks Quotes

"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
(Related: Country, Name, Play)

"You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams."
- Herb Brooks
(Related: Dreams)

"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
(Related: Dreams, Kids, Nation, Now)

"And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done."
- Herb Brooks
(Related: Now)

"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
(Related: Accomplishment, Feeling, Pride)

"I'm a dreamer."
- Herb Brooks

"Great moments are born from great oppurtunities."
- Herb Brooks
(Related: Moments)

"This is your moment. You're meant to be here."
- Herb Brooks

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

"Everything goes in cycles, to a degree."
- Herb Brooks