Ralph Boston
Ralph Boston
Ralph Harold Bostonis a retired American track athlete. An all around competitor, he is best remembered for the long jump, in which he was the first person to break the 27 feetbarrier...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLong Jumper
Date of Birth9 May 1939
CityLaurel, MS
CountryUnited States of America
american-athlete call fun great mean rivalry
You know I don't even know that I want to call what we did a rivalry it was fun I mean it was competitive, but it was also great fun.
american-athlete atmosphere country grown unusual
Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.
american-athlete convinced gotta people russian saying
I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
american-athlete people promise run
Without the Khrushchevs or the Nixons or the Reagans or those people you know, let us run it and I promise you we'll have a much better world.
dog years pet
To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.
team athlete winning
So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.