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My advice is to work hard and work smart. Learn about what you want to accomplish. Be sharp, and find out what you need to do to succeed.

— Ralph Boston

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That was a day that I guess ‘changed my life’ is a good phrase. Appropriate, You think about how a life has changed and how life changed and how things have happened since then.

Suddenly people recognized me. Before that night nobody outside of Laurel, Mississippi, knew who I was and the people in Laurel knew me as Hawkeye Boston, not Ralph Boston.

The Rome Olympics was the scariest thing I've ever done in my life. There was nothing like walking into the Olympic stadium and 80,000 people are watching you. The funny thing is after I finished, I thought it was a horrible jump.

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