Miracle Speech - You were born for this - Herb Brooks, Movie: Miracle

I'll never forget my dad's response. The game wasn't televised on the West Coast until three hours after it started, so he was listening to it on the radio while he was driving home on the freeway about 5 pm or so. He said the traffic was going about 25 miles an hour so probably almost everyone was listening to the radio broadcast. When the game ended people started honking their horns, and then pulling off on the side of the freeway. He said people were getting out of their cars and jumping around and hugging each other, so he joined in too. Just a great moment.

"They might win 9... But not this game... Not tonight."

Imagine being a college aged young adult, representing your country, against one of the greatest teams ever assembled. What they did was truly a miracle

I used to live in Minnesota so by law I have to watch this movie once a year.

I'd go through hell and back for my coach if he made a speech like that

Many people think this win was for the Gold...they had to beat a great Finland team after this to win the Gold. Two miraculous wins !

Quite possibly Kurt Russel's greatest role. He completely CRUSHED his portrayal of Herb Brooks. Well done!!!!!!

I'm from Minnesota and was born 9 months and 6 days later..... Guess my parents were pretty excited about the game!

As a Canadian, never so proud of America when they won, remembering watching that game. Love America and always will!

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

"One game. If we played them 10 times, they might win 9. But not this game. Not...tonight" One of THE most motivational quotes I have ever heard in a movie. Simple--but 1000% matter of factly confident.

Kurt Russell deserves an Oscar just for this speech and the emotions that he has put into it and the presentation itself.

I was so pissed when Kurt Russell didnt get an Oscar nod for this...

The USSR game was on a Friday afternoon. I was on a bus from Dallas to Galveston on a fraternity pledge class retreat that day. We were aware that the US team was playing the Soviets that day but we all knew the USA team had zero chance of winning. So we weren’t focused on the game. We stopped in Huntsville, Texas at a McDonalds just off I-45 to get burgers around 6 or 7pm, and while we were in the restaurant someone with a radio shouted “we just beat the Russians!” The entire restaurant exploded in joy, people went completely apeshit, a bunch of small town Texans, most of whom I am sure had never in their lives seen a hockey puck, spontaneously jumping up and down and singing God Bless America at the top of their lungs. I will never forget that moment of shared exhilaration as long as I live.

Some may say it was only a hockey game, but if you were alive in 1980, and knew what was happening in this country, it really cannot be overstated how important that victory was to the American psyche. Truly remarkable.

"And we shut them down, because we can!" Still sends shivers down my spine. I'd be pretty pumped up too for a championship game if my coach ever gave this speech pre-game.

From the formation of that team the previous summer to the Gold Medal win over Finland, Herb Brooks executed the single greatest job of coaching ever done in any sport by any human.

Brings tears to my eyes for three reasons. 1) The Speech 2) The Win 3)I had pants like Coach Brooks in 1974!

“Great moments are born from great opportunity.”

Damn it, now I want to watch the whole movie again.