"I loved that sport, but I never loved it more than academics," Huang told the Post-Intelligencer. He "worked the graveyard shift at a Portland Denny's and hung out at Paddle Palace," The Oregonian reported in 2008. Bochenski was taken with Huang's table tennis skills, calling the then-teenager "perhaps the most promising junior ever to play table tennis in the Northwest" in a letter that Sports Illustrated published in January 1978. Huang has occasionally spoken about the lessons he learned while attempting to become a table tennis champion. "Unfortunately, resilience matters in success," Huang told students at Stanford University in March.

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Persons: Long, Jensen Huang, Huang, Tae Kim, Lou Bochenski, Judy, Bochenski, Kim, Huang couldn't, he's Organizations: Nvidia, U.S, Seattle Post, Intelligencer, Post, Bloomberg, Oregonian, U.S ., Stanford University, CNBC Locations: Portland , Oregon, Taiwan, Portland, Las Vegas