No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.

I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air

No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.