Herbert Paul Brooks Jr. Quotes

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

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• 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.

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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.

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

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• Maybe I’m sort of like the players – there’s still a lot of little boy in me.

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• 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.

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• I’m a dreamer.

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• Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

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• Everything goes in cycles, to a degree.

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

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

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Herbert Paul Brooks Jr. (11)

Birth:	5th August, 1937
Death:	11th August, 2003
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Coach, Ice Hockey Player

About

Herbert Paul Brooks Jr. was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. He 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. Brooks would go on to coach multiple NHL teams, as well as the French hockey team at the 1998 Winter Olympics, and ultimately returned to coach the US men's team to a silver medal at the 2002 games in Salt Lake City. He was a member of the 1960 Olympic team, only to become the last cut the week before the Games started. From 1960 to 1970, he set a record by playing on a total of eight US National and Olympic teams, including the 1964 and 1968 Olympic squads. He finished his collegiate coaching with a record of 175 wins, 101 losses and 20 ties.

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