The list of great Macon sports heroes goes on and on and on. Being honored here tonight was probably not on your radar screen many years ago, because people generally don't think like that.

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

(Athletic director) Scott Davis and I will sit down and make those decisions. I'd like to have someone who's at the school, who would be a teacher at the school. Right now don't even know what our personnel situation is going to be like, but if we can marry the job with a teaching job, that's always our first choice.

It's not a real big deal. He and I talked, and he needs to help me more with administrative duties. We've been talking about it the last couple weeks. He talked with team (on Friday), and sat down with boys, and basically said that he's not going to be doing the basketball coaching.

I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. ...When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others ... But slowly, by what process I have no idea, your own writing tends to crystallize, to take shape. Yet you've learned some moves from all these guys and they are somehow incorporated into your own style. Pretty soon you're not imitating any longer.

Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?