Mike Eruzione
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So I, you know, nobody steps on the field.
Nobody makes major league baseball or football or NHL players by just skill.
There's a lot of work.
There's a lot of time.
There's a lot of effort.
There's a lot of sacrifices that go into people becoming successful.
And again, I think of sacrifices.
And like I said, my dad worked three jobs.
You know, he had to support a family.
So the sacrifices he made
Give me a chance to play a game never knowing it was gonna lead like I said to an Olympic Games But as a parent you support your children and what they want to do and I was fortunate to to have a dad that understood that my love was sports and he found a way to make sure that I was able to do that and You know, I look back on my coaches by high school football coaches a big influence in my life obviously my college hockey coach Jack Parker and
at Boston University where I played and work right now.
And I'm going to tell you, this is a crazy story, but I always talk about opportunity.
To me, life is about opportunities.
It's what you do with that opportunity that counts.
And I was given an opportunity to play a game, never knowing, thinking, or believing, or dreaming it would get to where it got to, but it did.
But I remember graduating from high school.
I wanted to go to University of New Hampshire.
And my grades weren't really good in school.
One thing I kind of messed up was.