Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

We can't all win Olympic medals. Even I never won one.

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

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.