Will Muschamp Quotes

If you don't deserve to play, you won't play.

My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut.

Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue.

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

Nobody is offered a World Cup.

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.

My last name may have opened doors, but I have to keep them open.

In nominating young women and men to our service academies, it must only be about who you are, not who you know.

A license permits broadcasting, but the licensee has no constitutional right to be the one who holds the license or to monopolize a radio frequency to the exclusion of his fellow citizens. There is nothing in the First Amendment which prevents the government from requiring a licensee to share his frequency with others.... There is no sanctuary in the First Amendment for unlimited private censorship operating in a medium not open to all.... It is the right of the viewers and listeners, not the right of the broadcasters, which is paramount.... It is the purpose of the First Amendment to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail, rather than to countenance monopolization of that market, whether it be by the government itself or a private licensee. It is the right of the public to receive suitable access to social, political, esthetic, moral, and other ideas and experiences which is crucial here. That right may not constitutionally be abridged either by Congress or by the FCC.

It is a privileged school with beautiful buildings in a beautiful setting. But the only justification for privilege is that it should help people develop themselves to the full. We are elitist, but not exclusive. And I'm not in ashamed in the least of being elitist. All that means is aiming at the highest standards you can achieve.

What rights don't they have?

It is not charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for.

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

You can't just decide you want to do this or that. You have to be invited.

We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

You get into any club you want, you have backstage passes for any concert you can think of, anywhere. You have access to everything, in the same way a toddler does. Everybody's like, 'Oh come on in!'

I've seen guys work as hard as I have and don't have the shot I have.

I think there's no one out there more deserving of a title shot than me.

Privilege is provisional. It can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly, and summarily withdrawn.

People believed I was fed with a silver spoon in my mouth, but I fought for everything that I have.

When I grew up, I had everything you could ask for, and I kind of didn't appreciate it. Because it was a given for me. Everybody that grew up in my neighborhood was going to have an opportunity to go to college. I took that for granted. I always regret that.