What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

Addition Rafer now acts as the athletic advisor to Dan Guerrero Director of Athletics at UCLA. Johnson read for and got the role but was forced to turn it down because the Amateur Athletic Union told him it would make him a professional and therefore ineligible for the Olympics. He was chosen to ignite the Olympic Flame during the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Rafer Lewis Johnson (born August 18 1935) is an American former decathlete and film actor.