I would to sit down with you and have a long discussion about him, his career, and how great baseball was in his prime.
You indeed are fortunate to have met him and gotten to know him.
Well, I guess you could say Pavarotti was a “big” man too, but Luis was big in a different way.
My family are Red Sox fans for several generations, so I thought it was so cool that I got to talk to him, even if it was only about telephone business.