San Jose Mercury News · Nov 17, 2016
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Legendary hockey coach Herb Brooks, when interviewing to be the head coach of the US Olympic Men’s Hockey team for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, reportedly told the higher-ups who ran the USOC that their humiliating losses to the Soviet Union in previous years weren’t due to a lack of talent; rather, he postulated, “All-Star” teams, assembled based on name recognition and individual talent, rarely possess the balance, camaraderie, and teamwork required to go from a group of individuals to a team, where the whole ends up being greater than the sum of the parts.