Lora Hinton: LSU Photograph Collection, RG #A5000,
Louisiana State University Archives, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, LA.
Lora Hinton: After the surgery . . . and you know the knee only rehabilitated back to a certain level, so . . . I knew early that my chances of reaching that level were slim and slimmer. The main thing I wanted to do was to finish. A lot of guys that knew . . . that were injured and knew they weren’t . . . you know, they just said, “Well, you know, why even do this anymore? I have my scholarship. I'm just going to go to school and finish up and get on with my life.” But, I wanted to finish.
Hebert: Finish as a player?
Hinton: As a player, yeah.
Hinton: So that's kind of the way I pursued that. My last year, you know, the knee was just . . . it got to the point where I . . . a whole practice session was just too much, and then sprints afterwards, I just couldn't do it. It was amazing because the coaches, they knew that. So they just said, “Well, look, why don't you just kind of stay out of the sprints?” I tell you, it was a humbling situation, you know, because they . . . They knew what I was doing. You know, “He's going to finish up with us.” They respected that so . . .
Hebert: And you finished up.
Hinton: That was nice.
-- Lora Hinton, interviewed by Mary Price, 1993