It's not that Bill Scherr doesn't remember; it's just that he's not telling.
Scherr and his twin brother, Jim, have stories about the rounds they've gone with each other just like any other set of twins.
Nebraska wrestling coach Mark Manning remembers some of their battles. He laughs so hard he almost has to step away from an interview. But when you ask for specifics, you get the same answer.
"I can't think of anything in particular," Manning said. "But it was very intense. I saw some fists fly."
That was before Bill and Jim Scherr came to Nebraska on wrestling scholarships, when the two were still teenagers in Mobridge, S.D., shoveling manure and stacking hay bales for their father.
That hard work instilled in them a work ethic that carried the brothers to a pair of national championships in 1984 for the Cornhuskers.
Years later, both have attained prominent roles in the sporting world.
Jim Scherr is the CEO of the United States Olympic Committee. Bill Scherr is the chairman of World Sport Chicago, an organization promoting youth involvement in sports. He is also a member of the board of directors for Chicago 2016, campaigning for Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Both recognize sports as an important part of youth and development. Bill Scherr sees it as one of the strong binding forces in their relationship.
"(Wrestling) kept us together with a common activity," Bill Scherr said. "Until we were in our late twenties, we were competing together on the U.S. National team. It cements and solidifies and extends the relationship between us that normal people wouldn't have had."
After professional wrestling careers, in which Bill placed second at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and Jim placed fifth, the brothers went different directions for the first time in their lives.
Jim took over as executive director of USA Wrestling while Bill headed into private business, jumping on board with Goldman Sachs.
"(Jim) took over a very volatile situation with USA Wrestling," Manning said. "I think it was poorly run so they had a lot of management and a lot of fiscal issues. Memberships were down. They had a lot of management problems there.
"In some ways, he helped save American wrestling and helped steady the ship and grew that organization."
During Jim Scherr's tenure from 1990 to 2000, USA Wrestling's membership grew to more than 135,000 athletes. At the 1996 Olympics, USA Wrestling topped all other nations with eight medals.
In 1997, Scherr received the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Order of Merit.
Six years later, Jim Scherr became the first Olympian ever to head the USOC. His work has him traveling roughly 180 days out of the year to places all around the world.
Perhaps fittingly, it has also enabled him to see more of his brother.
While climbing the corporate ladder to vice president in Goldman Sachs' private wealth management group, Bill Scherr has become a key individual in Chicago's Summer Olympics bid.
"I would have been interested anyway (in assisting with the bid effort), but it created an interest in me by Chicago 2016," Bill Scherr said. "(Jim) is one of the primary interaction points, and in my capacity as one of the bid leaders in Chicago ... I work with his constituent group. We work together."
Bill Scherr said even before his involvement with Chicago 2016, the brothers talked daily.
But now their opportunities to talk and see each other have increased with the work they're doing together. The brothers were in Beijing for three weeks during the summer Olympics last August.
On Monday, Jim was in Chicago for meetings concerning the Olympic bid.
Their work for the Chicago Olympic bid may keep the brothers in close contact for eight years and beyond, as two brothers and former Nebraska wrestling champions work to bring the greatest event in sports, along with its multi-billion dollar economic impact, to the United States.
Bill and Jim Scherr couldn't have asked for better circumstances to work with one another.
"They had the greatest admiration for each other," Manning said. "They were competitors, but once that practice was over they had great respect for each other.
"That's how it is today."
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