God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.

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.

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.

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 was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.

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