"The (school) grades fell tremendously and by my senior year I was pretty behind. I got out of high school, though, graduated, and then in 1967 in November, about four months after I graduated, I turned pro."

"I finished second in my very first tournament as a pro. That was a very enlightening experience;

"In that tournament were the greatest legends of the sport: Don Carter and Dick Weber, Dave Davis and Jim Stefanich, Carmen Salvino, Billy Hardwick, the legends of that era, all made the match play in that tournament, so I bowled all of them in my very first tournament. It was a great thrill."

"In 1968 I was going with 'Bowler of the Year,' got married, and had a boy. And then in 1969 I went out on tour full time, and was 'Rookie of the Year' in 1969. In 1970 I was signed to the AMF advisory staff. In '69 I won the all events at the ABC tournament in Madison, Wisconsin, in '71 the team event at the ABC tournament at Knoxville, so in my first two ABC tournaments I had two titles. I was only the third bowler in the century to do that -- to bowl and win back to back titles in his first two ABC tournaments."

"In 1971 I won my only PBA title in San Jose, California. Up to that point I had actually finished second four times, third four times, fouth once and fifth twice, so I made several top five's. I'd gotten hurt in late '71, and really struggled in '72 and '73, I didn't bowl bad, but didn't bowl anywhere near what I had been used to the last five or six years previously. In 1974 I had a very frustrating winter tour, and at that time the player services job became available for the PBA."

"I took the job and immediately started to innovate. I bought a Greyhound bus, took the seats out of it, made it into a camper up front, put a drill press and scale in the back and hence became the first 'rolling pro shop' in the history of bowling. I used the bus for five years and by then it was over-loaded and crowded. I bought an 18-wheeler and went and got a 'class A' license to drive an 18-wheeler, put the pro shop in the trailer, we started to drill three hundred balls a week and all of the sudden I was drilling about ten thousand balls a year."

"In the mid-'80's the senior tour developed. I bought another truck for the senior tour, so in essence I was servicing about forty-five to fifty pro events a year. By the early '90's we were drilling 15,000 balls a year, I had four employees, two 18-wheelers and a motor home towing a van. I had fifty tires a week rolling down the road. It was not uncommon to fill up all three vehicles at the same time and spend $1000 at the truck stop to fill them up."

"By the mid '90's I was starting to get tired. In 1996 I was inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame for meritorious service, which is a very prestigious hall. The meritorious category is for people in the news media, press, television, sponsors, corporate CEO's that have helped build the sport of bowling. Just to name a few: Harvey Firestone of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company is in the hall, Chris Schenkel of ABC Sports, Dick Evans of the Miami Herald, John Archibald of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Jim Murray of the L.A. Times are members of the meritorous category, and there's only twenty-two of us. I'm very proud to have been inducted."

"By the end of '96 it was just time (for me) to get out. I felt I had done enough. I was getting older, the players were getting younger, the travel seemed to be a bit of a burden now, and at that point I had been to close to one thousand pro events in my life. It was just time to get out."

"In 1999 we moved to Florida, in 2000 we came here to Fort Myers Beach and fell in love with the area. I now have two proshop's located in Cape Coral and life couldn't be better."