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Herschel Walker
All-American Football Player
I never knew what the Heisman trophy was. I was one of the first freshman ever to be nominated for the Heisman. My sophomore year they said I should have won, and in my junior year I ended up winning. I never knew what the Heisman trophy was. I knew it meant something big, but I never really knew. And when I won it, it meant that I was the best college athlete. But I was ashamed because there are so many good athletes out there and, for me to be singled out, I was sort of ashamed. But yet, after I won the award, I said now this is going to be an inspiration for me, to stand out, for all the guys that didn't get a chance to win it. Continue to go out there and work hard so they can say, you know, that's the guy that won it.
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Mike Wallace
CBS News Correspondent
I'm Jewish by heritage and in a certain way by feeling, but not a particularly religious or pious Jew. My religion is Golden Rule. That's what I try to live by. But, having said that, I met a Palestinian by the name of Fayez Said who was, I guess, born and brought up in Lebanon, who let the scales fall from my eyes about the state of the Palestinians. I began to -- I talked with him, and as a result of that I wanted to move around. By this time I was doing a lot of foreign work. I wanted to move around in that community and the Arab -- Palestinian and so forth -- community. Finally, we were going to do a story about the Syrian Jewish community, which had been substantial, and then had narrowed considerably. What we did was tell the truth about the real state of the Syrian Jewish community, which was not as bad as we had been led to believe. I was promptly labeled a self-hating Jew because we began to tell the truth about what was going on there.
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Mike Wallace
CBS News Correspondent
"Hey, tell the truth," that's what it says, "Because this guy and his team (and his team is very, very important) probably has the goods on you. He probably knows a good deal of what you don't want them to know, so play straight with them. Tell the truth." I can not tell you how many people, as a result, decided to tell the truth. The Coors Brewing Company ran that ad. We were going to do a piece about the Coors Brewing Company and [their] use of lie detectors without the knowledge of some of the people that they were detecting, and their employment practices and things of that nature, browns and blacks and women and so forth. At the time, they were being boycotted by AFL-CIO because of some of these practices, and I told the PR guy from Coors Brewery, "We are going to do the story whether you like it or not, so why not cooperate and tell the story?" He finally made the decision, and the Coors brothers, the two older guys, conservatives, said, "Yeah, let's tell the story." So, we told the story. Those lines were used when we repeated the story that summer. They took out an ad saying, "The four most difficult words" or whatever, "60 Minutes is here, Mike Wallace is here." They said, "If you like the truth and good beer, watch 60 Minutes."
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James Watson
Discoverer of the DNA Molecule
James Watson: I guess I'm best known for just saying things the way I think they are under circumstances where you're not supposed to say it. You've got a fairly short life span and, particularly when you have students, you've got to let them know what you think. They shouldn't have a guessing game as to what you think, because you're really out there to try and educate them as to what reality is. So, if you have a bad seminar, you might as well tell the guy to his face. You shouldn't get up and say, "Wonderful talk," when it isn't.
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James Watson
Discoverer of the DNA Molecule
In the case of cystic fibrosis, if you have the gene, and you've got both copies bad, you're going to have the disease. You'll essentially know it soon after you're born. This knowledge, particularly the predictive part of it, should be tightly controlled and probably should only be obtained when you can do something with the knowledge. It shouldn't just be obtained because you want to see the future; it should be obtained because you want to make the future better.
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