What we do at LSU is to develop players and make them better.

Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.

If you want team play, you must stress defense. Defense makes players unselfish.

You get what you tolerate!

If you don't hold your team accountable then you will lose credibility and your team will be spoiled.

Before you can beat me (this is the easy part), you have to allow yourself to win.

I order various types of breakfast and lunches. I do not just come in and order hamburgers all the time. I order the specials, pancakes, bacon and eggs.

Getting an interview with someone is like asking your good-looking cousin to go out with a friend of a friend on a blind date: you must approach the subject Just So.

I sensed he was the one who might be able to see me clearly, the way I most wished to be seen.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.

There is one thing more serious than merely to not believe, and that is to not care.

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.

Yon grey lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day.

At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.