Their offers are insignificant to our membership. They want most of the increases later in the contract.

Their numbers on medical costs were astronomical. It's a bad contract all around.

I know contract offers were exchanged, and they probably couldn't foresee themselves coming to terms. I think he definitely had a respect for the players and allowed us to handle ourselves as professionals. He was just a good guy.

Years later I made a movie with Wayne Newton, who has Arabians.

Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.

It was a ribbon of ice. Franz later told me that he didn't think he could win, but that he was willing to die trying.... That race put downhill on the map.