For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money compliments or publicity.

I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.

If newspapers were a baseball team they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'