Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.

I've always been called Lucky Louie. It's no mystery why.

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.

Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when you’re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.

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.

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