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The most inspiring story in my life had to be the movie Miracle on Ice. It 's about a 1980 USA hockey team that heads to the Olympic to win the gold. Around this time the United States were going through some tough times with Russia. The hockey team was led by coach Herb Brooks and his assistant coach Craig Patrick. Herb Brooks is a strange guy that knew the game very well. Was also the last cut for the 1960s USA hockey team. Being a coach was all he wanted to do. When he went to pick a team he didn 't just pick the best and most skilled guys but he picked the underdogs, the guys that worked really hard. Everybody thought he was crazy and would know chance beating the best team. The best team was the Soviet Union. Soviet Union would be any team that …show more content…

And for the next hours coach her Brooks would keep saying the same words " again ". He wouldn 't stop, they stayed so long they had to turn off the lights. This is one of my favorite scenes in the movie because it shows how much passion these guys have for each other. Doing what it takes for each one another. Showing that they are willing to do what it takes to win the Olympics. Never giving up never complaining and keep driving themselves to go more and more. This is the point of the movie when the team started to really become a family which was really expressed throughout the movie. Next week it was time to head to the Olympics. The games went very well for team USA because they 're really starting to understand what it truly takes to win. Until it came down to the semifinals USA versus the Soviet union whichever team wins goes on to the finals to face then until it came down to the semifinals USA versus the Soviet union whichever team wins goes on to the finals to face Finland. USA knew they had to come out heart and watch so much film to see what they would do. This was the greatest speech is was all time given. Thing was Herb Brooks wasn 't much of a talker at all but when he said this it really spoke to

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