The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.

The Olympics were produced absolutely the same way from 1960 through 1988. It was always the Western World against the Eastern Bloc. You didn't even have to spend one second developing the character of any of the Eastern Bloc athletes. It was just good guys and bad guys.

I will never be cynical again about people.

You want to do Olympics just like you do a pro football game or a basketball game? Be my guest. Watch it all fade away.

I live more than anything else to produce the Games.

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.