In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
“I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.”
“When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.”