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.

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

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

If I can take it, I can make it.

All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.