[Along the way, Baker had recorded with Bobby Robinson, who had also worked with Elmore James and was the first to put Gladys Knight and the Pips to vinyl. In 1968, when Marvin Gaye was looking for a new guitarist, he gave Robinson a call. Robinson recommended Baker,] because I could do the blues ... and because I could read music.

I'm like this yo-yo with a three-thousand-mile string." - Tai

We worked hard, we put our best foot forward, and we'll move on.

[After 5-6 and a bowl-less 2004, it’s time the Hogs get it done, Baker said. He likes Osceola and all, but doesn’t want to spend the entire Christmas holidays there.] When the bowl games are on, ... and you are home watching them play, it makes you come together as a team when you get back. It makes everyone come together so you are not sitting at home watching other teams play bowl week. I really do think we’ll get back to a bowl game because from the start of summer workouts everybody has been pushing each other saying, ‘ We can’t go 5-6. ’

When I was in Famous Monsters as 'Rick Baker, Monster Maker,' I'd made it, that was the most famous I ever felt.

Early is James Brown, Little Richard and Smokey Robinson rolled into one.