Mike Eruzione

And Herb said, if I hear another stick smash against the glass, you'll skate till you die.

I say that one more time.

What did Coach Brooks say?

I hear another stick smash against the glass, you'll skate till you die.

Then they shut the lights off in the building, just had the electrical lights on, and we finished the skate, and he brought us in the locker room,

this way again tomorrow, you're gonna skate again.

Well, we beat Norway eight to nothing the next day.

I'm gonna tell you why I tell the story about why we skated.

It wasn't because we were looking at the girls in the stands.

To me, this is the message from Herb was this, there are a lot of important values in life.

And the most important one is respect.

And we skated that night because of three things.

He said to us, if you don't respect yourself, you won't be successful.

If you don't respect your teammates, people that you work with, people that you associate yourself with, you will not be successful.

And if you don't respect your competition, you will not be successful.

We never made that mistake again.

And now I'll fast forward.

We win the Olympic gold medal.

We beat Finland.

A lot of people don't know this.