So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

Mrs. Spencer distrusted letters on principle, because they always seemed to want to entangle her in so many small, disagreeable obligations--visits, or news of old friends she had conveniently forgotten, or family responsibilities that always had to be met quickly and without enjoyment.

The interviewers recruit the candidate based on how good they are cumulatively for the assigned tasks than how good an interviewee is completely for the advertised jobs.