Taken from the interviews and historical accounts contributing to the RED FILES, read through the quotes and notable excerpts presented below.

Ralph Boston, U.S. athlete
(On his friendship and many competitions with Soviet challenger Igor Ter-Ovanesyan)
Once that game was over then we began, we went back to being Igor and Ralph, Ralph and Igor. And that was, that was really great, that was great.

Olga Korbut, Olympic Gold medalist
I remember I couldn't move any muscles after that. This is where I thought this is like you, exhausted. Emotionally I was empty. And I slept straight two days, two nights. Forty eight hours straight. I didn't wake up and then somebody thought may be I'm dead.

Natasha Kuchinskaya, gymnast, Olympic Gold medalist
We didn't study. We didn't. We sat there, like in a trap in the forest of the gymnasium /table hall. Only there were trainers there. So you see our way of life. At the end of it, how do we reach self-fulfillment? I was ravaged, devastated.

Paul Henderson, NHL All Star (hockey) professional
The first minutes of the game and -- and their conditioning was just absolutely unnerving.

Anatoly Firsov, star of Soviet hockey team
One day I came home and saw big Army traces next to my apartment. I understood that they were coming to pick me up. The police came.

Dr. Lev Markov, Sovet Olympic Committee member
I always recall and quote as an example a famous statement of American President John Kennedy, who used to say that in the world of that time all problems were being solved by two things -- quantity of golden Olympic medals and quantity of missiles.