Herb Brooks Quotes

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

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.

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!

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

Great moments are born from great opportunities.

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

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

This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it!

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

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

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

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

Success is won by those who believe in winning and then prepare for that moment.

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'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.

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.

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

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

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

Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.

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

The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen.

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.

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.