"I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics. ... Playing basketball You have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well."

Source : "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

Denton Cooley

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