Patty Brooks Quotes in Miracle (2004)

Herb Brooks: I got a telegram from a lady in Texas today, and you know what it said?

Patty Brooks: What?

Herb Brooks: Beat those Commie bastards. We're playing a hockey game against the greatest team in the world, and they're the best that's ever played this game. Why can't we just leave it at that?

Patty Brooks: Because this is more than a hockey game to a lot of people.

Herb Brooks: Yeah and I keep running through them all. Johnson on Mikhailov. Broten on Petrov. Pav against whoever OV. We just... We don't match up, Patti.

Patty Brooks: You might want to skip that when you talk to the boys tomorrow.

Patty Brooks: Herb, there's no disgrace in losing to this team.

Herb Brooks: Yeah, I know.

Patty Brooks: The important thing is, you got this far.

Herb Brooks: The important thing?

[pause]

Herb Brooks: The important thing is that those twenty boys know in twenty years, they didn't leave anything on the table. They played their hearts out. That's the important thing.

[leans over and kisses Patti on the cheek, while she rests her head on his shoulder]