Bucknell Athletic Hall of Fame Inductance Speech
Thank you, I am truly honored by this award and humbled by those of you that are here tonight on my behalf. As a wrestler at Bucknell, every day on the way to practice we would walk past the hall of fame pictures lining the hallway. Often I would stop and look at the pictures. I specifically remember the images of a football player named Joe wearing some sort of old cloth helmet with a smile on his face and the long lanky muscular body of a swimmer on the blocks. I would look at the faces, sometimes into the eyes, perhaps to get inside the head of what motivated these individuals. I remember coach Ferraro telling us that as we get older our past experiences become more important to us. But it was hard for me to understand these sorts of forward looking statements and I remembered thinking at the time that I hoped I would never be in a position to look back and would always be looking forward. As a freshman on the wrestling team, I might have been voted least likely to be induc...