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
I don't think it will. It'll never stop.
Nine out of ten time we play this team, the would beat us. But not tonight because tonight is our night, tonight we win.
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.
Success is won by those who believe in winning and then prepare for that moment.
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're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month.
You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of 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.
The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen,
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.