Herb Brooks

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

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.

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.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.