I don’t know if I’ve ever been around a guy as obsessed with winning and perfection as he was. He had a tremendous work ethic. Every day at practice, whether you were in a meeting or on the field or in the stadium—anything associated with football—if you did not give 100 percent or did not play or perform close to perfect, you heard about it. It was the best four years of my life and I was fortunate to play for him.

—Jesse Palmer, ESPN analyst, former Gator quarterback