“When you have a system, you kind of get in a routine of what’s important. And then you spend a lot more time on thinking of things that would make it better.”

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 don’t really have the voice for love songs, do I?

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

To be a liar, you’ve got to have a great memory, and I don’t have a memory.

I wouldn’t just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I’m getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I’m just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.