I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.

I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.

I think the older you get, the more lax you get, and the less romantic you are.