One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

He and running mate Maureen Salaman earned 66324 votes. In 1988 that same party nominated white-supremacist David Duke for president. He competed in the 1948 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics as a pole vaulter and also was a decathlete in 1956.

The Reverend Robert Eugene Richards known as Bob Richards (born February 20 1926 in Champaign Illinois) known as the "Vaulting Vicar" or the "Pole Vaulting Parson" in his competitive days was a versatile athlete who made three US Olympic Teams in two events.