Ray and I had known each other all of our lives. Our parents were best friends and next door neighbors so we didn't have any choice but to try and get along. But for some reason, and I don't know if either one of us could say what it was, we never liked each other. We had maintained an uneasy truce and a less than friendly rivalry since we started playing together at our parent's insistence. Even back then though, even at the ages of three or four we didn't like each other.