Mike Eruzione

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.