The team is never about the single player. It's not about the injury that keeps a star out of a certain game, and it's not about the coach. It's about the strength, and the abilities of the sum.

I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it.

I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day.

I'maa tell you right now as an experience, dammit, I'm going to enjoy that one as much as I hate to admit it.

They're great kids, great young people, and they fight like hell.

Louisiana has a heritage of great players that play their high school football within the boundaries of Louisiana.

I am disappointed, but I am realistic too. When you put your defense back on the field repeatedly, the offense needs to do its job and the defense needs to get itself off the field.

Yeah, we call that mulling around. Okay guys, come on now. What we're going to do early in this game is mull around, okay? And later, we're going call that monkey-off-our-back play.

This is what you should do, let it rest. I'm playing football for LSU. I'm preparing for R-Kansas. I'm preparing for the next game, and the next game after that.

When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I don't read books, but if I read books it would be like reading a book.

I'd be the first one to tell you that I would like to think that I had called timeout before that. I can't imagine that I did not. I can't tell you that I did, and that's my issue.

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to?Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.

Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.

If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.

I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

Marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive. This is within the reach of every couple, every person.