“The thing about Tom is the sense of urgency. Not just the word, or the phrase, but the sense of urgency of ‘this is how you have to operate.’ Everything is business. Practice is business. Practice is game-mode. The thrill that you get, you should get it after you get the win. Throughout the week, it’s all business and you have to prepare like that. Everyone has to be accountable. No one can just say ‘they’re picking on me’ or ‘he’s picking on me’, you have to be accountable and you can’t feel like the coaches call you out.

"Bill was great at that. He’d give you a pop quiz in the middle of the hallway. ‘What is your assignment?’ You better believe, you better know it. So it’s things like that, he kept you on your toes. It was great. I loved it.”