James Stockdale

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.

And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.

I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.