Mike Eruzione

All he talked about was positive.

Do the things we need to do in order to win.

We were never concerned about other teams.

Herb said it in the movie, I think a lot, I haven't seen the movie in years, but play your game, play your game.

That was constant on our bench.

We were never concerned about what other teams were doing.

We needed to control the things we needed to control and do the things that we needed to do in order to be successful.

So play your game, play your game.

Throughout the Soviet game, that's what he talked about.

Never once did he bring up

anything negative about what had happened before.

So your mindset's different.

Your mindset's totally different.

This game didn't, it was like it didn't even exist.

It was something in the past.

Well, we got to Lake Placid, and the first thing you do is you go into the room where they're going to give you the clothing that you're going to wear for the opening ceremonies.

In our case, it was sheepskin jacket, jeans, cowboy boots, cowboy hat.

I live in Boston.

That's the last time I'm going to wear a cowboy hat and boots and jeans.

But anyway, that was the, you know.