Conn Smythe allegedly said that he'd give $10,000 to the man who could "turn Herb Carnegie white" but Smythe did not turn Carnegie into an NHLer and he could easily have, had he been braver. He was the most powerful hockey man in one of the two most powerful markets in the game. The other one, Montreal, had Carnegie playing in their backyard and even bought the Aces to get Beliveau.Especially in my business. Remember, we sell technology and some of it is Microsoft technology. So you really need a thick skin to work in my company.

So when Michael was about to lose his leg to bone cancer at nine, his first question for the doctors was 'Will I be able to ski?' "I wanted to know what would be possible and what I could do with my leg," Michael says. "And I was lucky enough, through my parents' contacts in the ski industry, that they brought me a videotape of a guy skiing on one leg, a couple of days later. That'd be the video that I'd watch over and ove