"We spent a lot of time golfing in the summers. We'll play wiffle ball, street hockey, go rollerblading, whatever it is. We'd play a lot of cards," Anderson continued. But it was just so competitive. We'd play in the backyard rink growing up, and it'd be literally one-on-one and we would be out there for four or five hours, but it was every hour we'd have to go in and we'd play a best a seven series."
And it was constant. Someone might win a game of hockey one-on-one but then they'd have a race to see who got to the house first or there would be bad blood among whoever lost.
"You would try and lock that door because you knew that person was coming and he was going to try and rip your head off. It was almost like a safe place. It's like mom's here, you can't touch me."
He had a funny story about how his parents always pushed him, his brother and sister to be the best.
"My parents instilled it right from a young age. Stuff my parents did that wouldnt go over well nowadays," Anderson began. "My mom was a pro raquetball player and she was a national champion. My dad played hockey and he's just kind of good at everything. He's one of those guys that you play a game of any kind and he's going to win. But my mom has a crazy fire in her that she instilled in all three of us kids from day one. It was, we don't play to take second or to get a medal or ribbon or whatever."
Anderson talked about a time that his brother finished second place playing football.
"She takes Mikey's second place football trophy from fifth grade -- he's a 10-year-old kid and says, 'you want to know what we do with second place trophies in this house?' and she dropkicks his trophy in front of all of us. We weren't even fazed by it because we were just like, that's small. Second place."
Anderson's competitive spirit also moves beyond sports. He and his brother would play games at Dave and Busters or a similar type place and just win a ton of prizes and when it came time to go to the State Fair, he would clean up.
"It was every game (that I'd win). Like throwing a baseball. It was literally guess your speed and I'd say 78 and throw it right on the money. Here you go, here's a stuffed animal."
He added that someetimes they'd win so many prizes at the State Fair that he'd just start giving everything away.
"One time we showed up at like six o'clock to the State Fair and we were going out that night. So we walk to the State Fair from my house as we live so close to it. We were planning to be there until midnight or one o'clock so (my girlfriend says) we're not carrying this around so all these kids are leaving and we'd just say hey would you like this? And they say oh yes."
