“For a kid to see a friend [Collins] experience something like that, when you hear the same term, you think the same thing will happen to you. So it did him a world of good to get a chance to come home and see I was doing okay. I wasn't 100 percent myself, but it did him a world of good to know I wasn't laying up somewhere dying.”
“I tried to stay on top of it. He was a challenge there. He's always been very smart -- not because of hard work, because he didn't exhibit a lot of that in the classroom. He was just smart. He never had to study.”
