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

Anyone who waits for someone else to make a change automatically becomes the follower.

I don't like to play favorites, and I do try to spread the ball around. But there's an old rule: You throw to the guys who get open in practice.

I would like to think I will be a guy who knows when it's time to stop. I don't want to be a guy who hung on and hung on. I do not have a goal in mind of a year or a statistic.

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

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this.

The game was much like our season. This game tested our toughness, our resilience, our unselfishness. It's only fitting that it turned out this way. This is a great bunch of guys to play with. I feel very, very grateful.