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Herschel Walker
All-American Football Player
Too many people today are afraid to step up at bat. They are afraid that life is going to throw them all kinds of curve balls, and this and that. And you know what is so strange, is there is no one in professional baseball that is batting 100. I doubt there is anyone batting 600. There is no one probably batting even 500. But as long as you're not afraid in life, and step up and take on a challenge, you never know what's going to happen. And every challenge that I have been faced, I am going to step up and swing because one time I may hit a home run. And that home run is going to carry me a little bit farther. That's what is so great to me about the Academy here. I've won so many awards in my life. I won a lot of things, but when I got the word about coming up here to the Academy as a student, I was getting so many scholarship offers and I really didn't know what to think of it, until I got here and saw the other students here. And it made me proud to be a part of that.
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Herschel Walker
All-American Football Player
You can take two little dogs. One can be a small dog, the other one is a small puppy, but it's going to grow up to be this huge 160-pound dog. And you can take this one 30-pound little dog that is an adult at the time, and this big dog, as he grows up he is being dominated by this little dog. So he always grows up thinking this little dog can beat him. So he can get to his full size of 160 pounds, and this little dog still is only 30 pounds, but the big dog still thinks the little dog can beat him, so he is afraid of him because he doesn't know any better.
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Herschel Walker
All-American Football Player
I grew up in the South. My senior year was a very big racial - the tension in my home town was a very big deal. It's tough, but you're knowing who you are, and you're knowing that no white's no better than you, Herschel, you're no better than they are. And, I think the biggest thing to help me to overcome is when it's all said and done, God is not going to have a list and say, "Oh, geez. You're white, so you are going in, you're black, you're not," or "You're black, you comming in, you are white, you're not." God don't care. My mother once told me - this is almost similar to it - I was going to church one Sunday, and I didn't want to go. I was tired of going to church and stuff. And I hid my shoes, I didn't want to go. It's funny because I went in to my mother, and she said, "You ready to go to church?" And I said, "No, I can't go." She said "Why?" I said, "I don't have any shoes." You know, you only had one pair of Sunday shoes. And I said, "I don't have any shoes to go." And she said, "No, you can come on and go," and I said "I don't have any shoes." She said, "God don't care how you look." I thought about it, and you know, that's true. God don't care how you look. He don't care whether you are white, black, pink. As long as you've been a good person and you believe in Him. And, I said, "That's the key."
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Mike Wallace
CBS News Correspondent
Mike Wallace: You name it. Everybody. A lot of people in New York were fascinated by the fact that somebody was finally asking questions of some substance and unexpected questions. One back then would never talk on air to a homosexual. I mean it just would be unheard of. But we did, those who were willing to come out of the closet and talk about it - or somebody who was addicted to drugs. I mean it is difficult to believe now, but a half century ago and that was virtually that -- 45 years ago, all television interview programs were pabulum, easy questions and easy answers and so forth. And, suddenly we decided -- it wasn't my idea, it was a colleague of mine by the name of Ted Yates with whom I worked for a long time. He said, "Let's really go after some of these people in an interesting way. Make them think, make them react." And, they did.
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Mike Wallace
CBS News Correspondent
I didn't want to talk about the stigma of depression. Finally, one night I was on the Bob Costas Show, back when he did Later on television, about 1:30 in the morning. In the middle of it, I suddenly realized, "Hey, the people who are watching at this time of night are people who can't sleep." So, I decided those are the people that I used to be, and that is the first time I began to go public about it. It lifted an extraordinary burden. Since that time I have talked about it fairly openly for the reason that it can be helpful for other people to say, "Well look, here's a guy who was at the bottom of the heap, miserable, and look, he has it back. He's surviving."
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