We kind of grew up together. We went from kindergarten all the way through college together.

He had a tremendous will to keep going. All his life he took incredibly good care of his body. He didn't drink, he didn't smoke. I think that's why he lived with it as long as he did.

It will be there forever. It will remind me of Larry every time I see it.

He was such a fighter. Even though I wouldn't see him for months, it didn't really matter. It was a friendship that will last forever.

It's a horrible, horrible disease. What happens is all your muscles in your whole body atrophy down to nothing.