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Video: Child Impersonates Herb Brooks' Locker Room Speech

Oct 1, 2009 – 1:20 PM
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Bruce Ciskie

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One of the more famous scenes from the movie Miracle happens before the United States-Russia game in Lake Placid. Team USA head coach Herb Brooks -- portrayed by Kurt Russell -- walks into the locker room and delivers a passionate speech to his college-age players.

It's a speech that has been replayed at hockey arenas around the country. Surely, a few hockey coaches have tried to "borrow" the contents of the speech to fire up a team. Of all the impersonations you'll ever hear, the best might be from a four-year-old boy on YouTube. Video after the jump.

First off, here's the original, as performed by Russell.



Now, here's "Rizzo" doing his version of the speech.



If you're a parent, you can probably appreciate the ability of a child to say something like "Screw 'em!" so passionately and emphatically, while likely having no idea what it means.

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