Herb Brooks Quotes

• 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.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Hockey, Goal

  80 Copy quote

• Great moments are born from great opportunities.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Sports, Hockey

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  75 Copy quote

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

  Herb Brooks

  Monday, Morning, Men

  86 Copy quote

• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hockey

  75 Copy quote

• 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

  Inspirational, Believe, Winning

  77 Copy quote

• 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.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Team, Kids

  64 Copy quote

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

  Herb Brooks

  Book, Reading, Writing

  72 Copy quote

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

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  77 Copy quote

• Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Dream, Hockey

  44 Copy quote

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

  Herb Brooks

  Winning, Play, Ties

  47 Copy quote

• 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

  Inspirational, Hockey, Men

  56 Copy quote

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

  Herb Brooks

  Goal, Used, Be Prepared

  53 Copy quote

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

  Herb Brooks

  Names, Miracle, Important

  73 Copy quote

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

  Herb Brooks

  Believe, Winning, Moments

  39 Copy quote

• 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!

  Herb Brooks

  Miracle, Sports Movie

  "Miracle". Biography, Drama, History, www.ranker.com. 2004.

  58 Copy quote

• 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.

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Athlete, Hockey

  40 Copy quote

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

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hockey

  43 Copy quote

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

  Herb Brooks

  Inspirational, Next, Months

  21 Copy quote

• The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen.

  Herb Brooks

  Gentleman, Legs

  "Fictional character: Herb Brooks". "Miracle", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• 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

  Dream, Kids, Adults

  31 Copy quote

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

  Herb Brooks

  Hockey, Moments, Meant To Be

  17 Copy quote

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

  Herb Brooks

  Jobs, Giving, Easy

  19 Copy quote

• And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

  Herb Brooks

  Stupid, Done, Littles

  9 Copy quote

• 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

  Country, Smart, Player

  26 Copy quote

• 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

  Pride, Ice, Accomplishment

  25 Copy quote

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