Herb Brooks
Herb Brooks
Herbert Paul Brooks, Jr.was an American ice hockey player and coach. His most notable achievement came in 1980 as head coach of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic hockey team at Lake Placid. At the games, Brooks' US team upset the heavily favored Soviet team in a match that came to be known as the 'Miracle on Ice'. Brooks would go on to coach multiple NHL teams, as well as the French hockey team at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and ultimately...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth5 August 1937
CitySaint Paul, MN
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
We need to look at what Europe is doing to get better and try to get better ourselves. We need to make some changes and that can only be good for the game. Tolstoy once said, 'Everybody wants to change the world, but they don't want to change themselves.' So we all have to change our thinking and focus on getting our kids better.
And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.
You're only as good as your values.
Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.
If you give 99 percent, you will make my job very easy.
This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen,
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.
Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions!
Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.
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!