Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.

Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.

The attitude with which we approach the situation can determine our success or failure.

I never left the field saying I could have done more to get ready and that gives me peace of mind.

If you wait for others to initiate change you automatically become a follower.

Pressue is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.

If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly.

My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.

I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know.

You don't understand the power of loss when it first hits you like a baseball coming fast from an out-of-control pitcher....It's the third day after an injury when the pain really starts to throb.

Fire is fire.

If you have seen nothing but the beauty of their markings and limbs, their true beauty is hidden from you.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.

My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.