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.

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

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

Barely a teenager, Elizabeth Taylor was already more beautiful and voluptuous than Miss America. When she arrived at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel for our magazine shoot, I was bowled over. I couldn't believe she was only fourteen. She filled out a swimsuit better than I did. We did the pictures, including one shot of me teaching her to float. With that superstructure of hers, she floated just fine. What she couldn't do was sink.

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

I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit