“You can blame the other guy for saying it, or you can look at yourself and say, ‘I must have contributed to this.’”

I think center is a critical position.

I hope whoever our leader is will do all that he can do to make our country safe and improve the quality of life for a lot of the people we have in our country, and I don’t think I am qualified to determine who that should be.

My wife gets so mad at me because I don’t like to cook on the grill.

I guess I’m motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don’t do things the way you need to do them to have success.

Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.

People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.

I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?

I loved it at LSU.

You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.

It’s never OK to lose a game.

George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.

I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.

I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.

If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,

You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.

Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.

I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.

Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

I will never, ever regret the things I’ve done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.

I can’t tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten.

When people tell me I can’t do something, I have a visceral reflex to say, ‘Yes, I can.’