"Legs Feed the Wolf" - Coach Herb Brooks

To say I am a "big fan" of sports movies would be an understatement!

At the top of my list is the 2004 movie, Miracle, a story about the 1980 U.S. Olympic Men's Hockey Team that beat the odds and won the gold medal.  In the movie legendary coach, Herb Brooks gifts to us one of the often-quoted lines in my house, "Legs feed the Wolf".  Coach Brooks tells his team, "We may not be the best team out there, but we will be the BEST conditioned team."  His hockey players would not win on talent alone - instead, they would win by working harder than everyone else, being better conditioned than everyone else, and playing together and achieving the kind of synergy where 1+1 = more than 2. 

"The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen."  What does this mean?
Let's guess at it - What do wolves do to eat?  They hunt in packs - there is no such thing as a "lone wolf" who can survive in the wilderness.  Wolves live together, hunt together, and eat together.  How does a pack of wolves hunt?  They typically chase their prey until for miles and miles until their prey tires out and drops to the ground out of fatigue.  The wolves outlast their prey.  They don't have to be faster to win - they just have to be able to run farther and longer than the animals that they hunt.  Strong legs can run farther than weak legs, so it is indeed the legs that feed the wolf.

For me, it reminds me to be sure to do these 3 things:
- Be in a Wolf Pack you want to hunt with.
- Condition to run further and longer.
- When one wolf "tires" bring back provisions to sustain them because the pack needs each other, and when I "tire" accept the sustenance to be able to re-join the pack.