People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.

All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.

I was raised to face any challenge.