Leadership Q&A: Iconic U.S. Olympian on leading with honesty and humility

Few sports champions over the past 50 years have earned the right to lead with bravado more than Mike Eruzione.

The captain of the 1980 U.S. Men’s Olympic Hockey Team, Eruzione scored the game-winning goal to bring down the Evil Empire-esque Soviet hockey team at the Lake Placid games. This was the game memorialized by the famous Al Michaels “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” call on TV. At the medal ceremony two days later, Eruzione, standing on the podium, famously waved over his 19 other teammates to join him on the stand.