He was a great role model and a legend. He was Mr. Bowling. Whatever needed to be done to help promote the sport, he did it.

Dick Weber is the only person who could draw all those people to St. Louis. It was a pretty moving thing.

If you want to go through everybody - Don Carter, Weber, Hardwick - Billy was the guy. His mental toughness and determination made him unique.

He had a pretty good fire inside, and when he put his mind to something, he was going to make it work.

It was the start of a downward slide. Being that far away when something like that happened, it was just brutal.

He'd help anyone, at anytime, with anything.