I was 6-3 and weighed 160 pounds, and I got to guard (Wake Forest's 6-8, 240-pound Len) Chappell.

We had Wake Forest down 17 points in the second half and lost. I still remember (Wake coach) Bones (McKinney) and his red socks. We should have won that game. We had four 80 percent foul shooters, but we didn't have a slow-down game.

I think you are going to see a lot of fish weighed in. You may see a 30-pound stringer. It is unlikely there will be any over 40, but it is possible. There will be a lot of 20s.

It was 1-inch thick. It weighed about 100 pounds. It was a little over 360 feet in length.

They would be having sit-ins uptown, and we would be playing basketball at Benedict. Art had an old Model A (Ford) with no roof. He would cut a doughnut in front of a dorm at Benedict and let (the car) backfire. They would open the gym and we would go at it.

It was a daunting thing, when they came to my house and offered me the role. I weighed 240 pounds. At the time, my girlfriend was pregnant and we basically were beached whales together. And it was a long trip over time to get to a size that I could fit into these suits that he wore.