“It’s so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.”

A lot of people like to fool you and say that you’re not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That’s what I learned from selling crack.

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change.

You don’t get respect if you don’t deserve it.

When you’re dead, you don’t breathe, you don’t see, you don’t feel, you don’t love.

They legalized alcohol, they legalized tobacco. What is it gonna hurt to legalize this medicinal, medical marijuana that’s used for purposes of cataracts?

I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

It ain’t no fun if the homies can’t have none.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I’m one of those scenarios.

You got to be who you are when you are.

My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He’s inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination – but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field.

Everybody wants to be a winner. Winning for you is everything, right? Wrong, winning is the only thing!

The more information you have, the better you will be.

Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.

The message is always going to get through. Me being able to speak is a message in itself.

My mind on my money, my money on my mind.

There’ll be ups and downs, smiles and frowns.