So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.

Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.

I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.

Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.

Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come.

Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.