Babe Didrikson Zaharias after winning the 1954 U.S. Women's Open: “I’ve had over 15,000 letters from people and this victory today is an answer to them – it will show a lot of people that they need not be afraid of an operation and can go on and live a normal life…I promised to God that if He made me well, I’d do everything in my power when I got out to help the fight against cancer.”