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Herb Brooks
- Herb Brooks: Great moments are born from great opportunity. And that's what you have here, tonight, boys. That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we played 'em ten times, they might win nine. But not this game. Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay with them. And we shut them down because we can! Tonight, we are the greatest hockey team in the world. You were born to be hockey players. Every one of you. And you were meant to be here tonight. 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.
- Mike Eruzione: Mike Eruzione! Winthrop, Massachusettes!
- Herb Brooks: Who do you play for?
- Mike Eruzione: I play for the United States of America!
- [last lines]
- Herb Brooks: [voiceover] Two days later, the miracle was made complete. My boys defeated Finland to win the gold medal, coming from behind once again. As I watched them out there, celebrating on the ice, I realized that Patti had been right. It was a lot more than a hockey game, not only for those who watched it, but for those who played in it. I've often been asked in the years since Lake Placid what was the best moment for me. Well, it was here, the sight of 20 young men of such differing backgrounds now standing as one. Young men willing to sacrifice so much of themselves all for an unknown. A few years later, the U.S. began using professional athletes at the Games - Dream Teams. I always found that term ironic because now that we have Dream Teams, we seldom ever get to dream. But on one weekend, as America and the world watched, a group of remarkable young men gave the nation what it needed most: a chance, for one night, not only to dream, but a chance, once again, to believe.
- Herb Brooks: You think you can win on talent alone? Gentlemen, you don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.
- Herb Brooks: This is unbelievable. You guys are playing like this is some throw away game up in Rochester. Who we playing, Rammer?
- Mike Ramsey: Sweden.
- Herb Brooks: Yeah. You're damn right Sweden! In the Olympics!
- [turn to McClanahan]
- Herb Brooks: What the hell is wrong with you? Put your gear on!
- [pause]
- Herb Brooks: I said put your gear on!
- Rob McClanahan: Doc told me I can't play.
- Herb Brooks: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. You got a bad bruise. You know what? Put your street clothes on because I got no time for quitters!
- Mike Eruzione: Come on, Herb! No body is quitting here!
- Herb Brooks: You worry about your own game. Plenty there to keep you busy.
- Herb Brooks: A bruise on the leg is a hell of a long way from the heart, candy ass.
- Rob McClanahan: What'd you call me?
- Herb Brooks: You heard me!
- Rob McClanahan: You want me to play, huh? Is that what you want?
- Herb Brooks: I want you to be a hockey player!
- Rob McClanahan: [yells] I AM A HOCKEY PLAYER! YOU WANT ME TO PLAY ON ONE LEG? HUH? I'LL PLAY ON ONE LEG!
- Herb Brooks: [walking out of the locker room with McClanahan still screaming] That'll get him going.
- Craig Patrick: Oh, yeah. I'll clean up!
- Herb Brooks: When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates. And the name on the front is a hell of alot more important than the one on the back! Get that through your head!
- Herb Brooks: All-star teams fail because they rely solely on the individual's talent. The Soviets win because they take that talent and use it inside a system that's designed for the betterment of the team. My goal is to beat 'em at their own game.
- Lou Nanne: Beat the best team in the world? Gold medalists in '64, '68, '72, '76? Pretty lofty goal, Herb.
- Herb Brooks: Well, Lou, that's why I want to pursue it.
- Herb Brooks: [to Patti on the phone] We were taxiing out to the runway, right? And we... you know, we kind of hit a moose. No, the moose is fine, but we gotta make sure that the plane's all right, so some of the boys are pushing it back so these guys can take a look at it. Patti, the moose is okay. He ran off. I saw it.
- Herb Brooks: Red line, back. Blue line, back. Far blue line, back. Far red line, back. And you have 45 seconds to do it. Get used to this drill. You'll be doing it a lot. Why? Because the legs feed the wolf, gentlemen. I can't promise you we'll be the best team at Lake Placid next February, but we will be the best conditioned. That I can promise you.
- Herb Brooks: [as the players who were cut depart] Take a good look, gentlemen, cause they're the ones getting off easy.
- Herb Brooks: [making his team do sprints after a lackluster game] You keep playing this way, you won't beat anybody who's even good, let alone great! You wanna make this team? Then you better start playing at a level that's gonna FORCE ME to keep you here! AGAIN!
- Jim Craig: Wait a second, I've given you all I've got, and now you're pulling the plug on me?
- Herb Brooks: Have you? Given me your very best? Because I know there's a lot more in you, a whole other level, that for some reason you just don't want to go to! Aww, what the hell, you don't understand what the hell I'm talking about.
- Jim Craig: No... you know what I understand, Herb? I don't understand you, nobody on this team understands you. You, with your ridiculous sayings, and your drills, and those stupid psychology tests that you had everybody take...
- [cut off by Herb]
- Herb Brooks: Everybody?
- [starts jogging up the stairs while Jimmy yells after him]
- Jim Craig: What, so this is what this is all about? Because I didn't take your test? Fine, you want me to take your test, I'll take your test. Is that what you want?
- Herb Brooks: No. I wanna see the kid in the net who wouldn't take the test.
- [walks up the remaining stairs, and out the door, with Jimmy staring after him]
- Herb Brooks: Vladislav Tretiak; if you score on him, keep the puck because it does not happen often.
- Herb Brooks: I'll be your coach, I won't be your friend. If you need one of those, take it up with Doc or Coach Patrick.
- Herb Brooks: Come on in, boys.
- John 'Bah' Harrington: You wanted to see us, Coach.
- Herb Brooks: I'm thinking about keeping the three of you together on the same line. Everyone ok with that?
- Buzz Schneider: Yeah.
- John 'Bah' Harrington: Sure.
- Mark Pavelich: Sure.
- Herb Brooks: How 'bout you, Buzzy? You think this works with Bah and Pav here?
- Buzz Schneider: Yeah. It's going good. We're moving the puck well. It's just a little different playing with them, you know?
- John 'Bah' Harrington: Yeah. I don't know how to explain it, but we seem to find each other on the ice and make things happen.
- Mark Pavelich: Yeah. Pass, shoot, score.
- John 'Bah' Harrington: Pass, shoot...
- Buzz Schneider: And score.
- Jack O'Callahan: This is crazy, Herb. Bringing him in this late.
- Rob McClanahan: We've got parents buying tickets, getting rooms. What are we supposed to tell them? And with one of us going home as it is...
- Herb Brooks: I guess I don't have to ask where you stand on this do I, Rizzo?
- Rob McClanahan: This wasn't Rizzo's idea.
- Mike Eruzione: You want me to say, "I'm scared of getting cut?" I'm scared of getting cut. Everyone is.
- Jack O'Callahan: We just want it to be fair, Herb.
- Herb Brooks: Don't try to tell me what's fair. He was right back there with us in Colorado.
- Mike Eruzione: That was six months ago!
- Herb Brooks: And you don't think he's been playing for the last six months?
- Mike Eruzione: Not with us he hasn't!
- Herb Brooks: So?
- Mike Eruzione: So there's a difference!
- Herb Brooks: Like hell there is! All I know is that that kid can flat out play!
- Jack O'Callahan: What and we can't?
- Herb Brooks: He's got great vision on the ice...
- Rob McClanahan: That's not the point!
- Herb Brooks: I'll tell ya what else he's got. He's got the attitude I want on and off the ice. So somebody here better tell me why I shouldn't be giving him a hell of a look!
- Mark Johnson: Because we're a family!
- Herb Brooks: What?
- Mark Johnson: We're a family.