Miracle - The Name on the Front More Important than the Name on the Back
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Published 2012-02-23
All Comments (21)
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"You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone." That's the one line I will always remember from this scene.
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"you guys don't wanna work during the game?? No problem we'll work now...." That send shivers down my spine...
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Some of the scariest words an athlete can hear: "Get a whistle."
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"I'm not looking for the best players, Craig (Patrick). I am looking for the RIGHT ones." - Herb Brooks, 1979
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Kurt Russel did a fantastic job in this role. He obviously studied Brooks very closely, down to the last detail. What an amazing story and movie.
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Kurt Russell was perfect for this role.
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This scene is one of the best scenes in all of sports movies. Not because the camera work is godly, not because the dialogue is amazing, not because the set design is so intricate. Simply because of what it represents because it actually happened. On that day he took all those kids and turned them into a hockey team. A United States hockey team. There will never be another Coach like Coach Brooks.
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He was right when he said “this cannot be a team of common men, because common men go nowhere, you have to be uncommon” Herb knew that in order to beat the best team in the world they had to work hard and even harder than anybody else to succeed. If you want victory you must be willing to pay a price, whatever that may be. There is no such thing as a discounted victory.
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Play for the name on the front and they’ll remember the one on the back boys
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"You think you can win on talent alone? Gentlemen, you don't have enough talent to win on talent alone." I think any coach can use any variation of that line to bust down their team no matter what sport they're coaching.
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Just found out the Soviet coach Viktor Tikhonov died today, maybe if there is an afterlife, he and Herb Brooks will have their rematch.
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In one of the DVD extras for Miracle, Herb Brooks said that he actually forewarned the players that he would skate them after the game if they didn’t skate hard during the game. So in real life the players knew what they were in for when they were forced to stay on the ice.
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"Get a whistle" Words you never want to hear from your coach. Great movie.
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Having known herb brooks in real life as he was a close friend of my grandpa I can say that Kurt russel does a very good protrayal of who he was as a person and how passionate he was about the game he loved so much. He changed the sport forever and I’m glad to have personally gotten to meet and drink coffee with him.
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I had the opportunity to talk to Mark Johnson about this a few years ago and he said, as horrible as it was, it made them the team they became. The reverence for this group, given the political climate at the time, is well deserved, and Herb Brooks was the catalyst for what they achieved.
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"Common men go nowhere, you have to be uncommon." - H. Brooks
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"I can't promise you we will be the best team at Lake Placid. But we will be the best conditioned. That I can promise you". Coming together as a team!!
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My favorite line in any movie. THE NAME ON THE FRONT IS A HELL OF A LOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE ONE ON THE BACK!!!!! (USA, USA, USA)
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They don't make 'em like Herb Brooks anymore. Probably the greatest hockey coach in history. The things he did with that team are unheard of.
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I lived in Winthrop, Massachusetts back in 1980. After the Olympics, we gave Mike a parade, and he came to my elementary school. He's a really down to Earth guy.
