I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!'
Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.
A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.