Joe Horn People Quotations

We appreciate it. We welcome it. We love the people across the nation who have poured out their hearts to us. We love you with all of our hearts and we're going to do what we have to do to win football games. We love everybody in the world who has supported this effort and those who sat and watched TV and wanted to support us financially but couldn't.

But it's not about the New Orleans Saints now. It's about all those people on those cots trying to find their kids.

The people that lost everything, they have to sit on cots to watch this team and hope we win for New Orleans,

Just to see kids like that, it's horrible, it's sad. Just to sit back and watch babies that can't even eat, that are suffering. I'm just hoping that the government goes in, sends ships in and gets people out as quickly as possible and tries to rebound from this catastrophe.

Just to make those people happy, it's all worthwhile.

I saw people on the streets, on the bridges, and I didn't want to leave that way. I didn't want to come to a new city and know we left New Orleans like that. To go back, to have us back there again, is phenomenal.

Our fans loved us before the hurricane came. They've wanted us to win football games for 30 years. We should win football games for them regardless of the disaster. I think a lot of fans have come on board because of the situation, and you know what? We're all for it. It's not about the New Orleans Saints. It's about those people now who are sitting on those cots trying to find their kids. That's what it's about.

that's what America is about. It's about people re-uniting, getting together, picking up someone else when they're down.

I would love to get in the hot tub right now and get in the cold tub and get my legs back, ... But I'm sure there's a lot of people that would love to have their homes. They'd love to see their little brother walk through the door. What the New Orleans Saints are going through right now is a cakewalk.

We can't roll our football helmets on the field and expect that because Katrina came through a part of Louisiana that people will feel sorry for us and let us win. I'm not going to run around trying to catch a pass and not expect (Carolina defensive end) Julius Peppers to try to knock my helmet off.

When I went to the shelters, ... I just kept telling the people, especially the people from Louisiana, 'Hold on. Just keep holding on.'

It was very emotional for us. It feels real good because we know all they went through, all they lost. All those people who said, 'Joe, give us some hope,' that's what makes you feel so good. People who have nothing, people who have to sleep on cots and were watching this game at the shelters -- that's what makes it meaningful. We want to take that with us everywhere we go. Their words kept going through my mind. . . . It's not about the New Orleans Saints. It's about those people sitting on cots with their kids.

Anything Aaron Brooks threw during that last drive, I was going to catch. We're going to put those people on our backs and try to carry them through the season. They loved us before the hurricane. They've wanted us to win football games for 30 years.

All people have asked of me was, 'Joe, please win football games for us. Give us some kind of hope,' ... And that is what makes us feel so good. It wasn't about who made plays or who did what. It was about winning that football game for the fans in New Orleans and around the world, because our fans are everywhere.

It's not just the people in the (Astrodome), there are people in hotel rooms, 12 at a time with families piled on top of families, and they won't have the financial means. I'm going to stay there two days and see if I can help them out. I know I can't help everybody, but I'm going to try my best because I love the fans there and in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.

The New York Giants are still playing a home game. Now, everybody can pull sheepskin over their eyes and act like it's not a home game for the Giants. That's cool. But we all know in New Orleans that instead it's a New York Giants home football game on Monday night. If people want to dress it up that way and make us feel like we are at home . . .

The New York Giants are still playing a home game. Now, everybody can pull sheep skin over their eyes and act like it's not a home game for the Giants. That's cool. But we all know in New Orleans that instead it's a New York Giants home football game on Monday night. If people want to dress it up that way and make us feel like we are at home ...

It's comfort zone to know that when you make a play, you'll have 50 to 60 thousand people screaming

It's devastating to us. I've cried three or four times. Seeing kids without any food, elderly people dying and the government saying that help is on the way -- that's the most shocking part.

It's cool we're in New York, but don't get me wrong, the Giants are playing a home game. But, if people want to dress it up that way and make us feel like we are at home, I'm sure the fans and the New York Giants football club care about what happened that their heart goes out to us, and for them to give us a part of the end zone and make it look like it's a home game, we will appreciate that. But we're also not crazy in knowing that it's a home game for the Giants.

Oh, I think the fans will welcome us with open arms. There were lives that were lost here in this hurricane. They feel for us. We're from New Orleans. So they feel our heart, they feel our pain, they feel the fans' pain. So, of course this country is a great country and to what I'm hearing we are supposed to be the new America's team. And you know what? That's fine because that's what America's all about. It's about people bonding together, getting together.

It won't last for people living on cots, but at least it gave them something.

I keep saying this, but before the hurricane got here, we were focused. The New Orleans Saints football team was focused to try and win a Super Bowl. By the hurricane coming and the homeless people that are here now watching us play, it gives us a little more initiative to play harder and play smarter and go out and win a Super Bowl.

I'm sure there are a lot of people 15 or 20 miles from here who would love to have a home and see their little brother walk through the door,

I heard the stories from the people that came crying on my shoulder saying, 'Joe, I lost everything. I don't know where my son is. I don't know where my daughter is,' ... Right now they're in disarray. They're still trying to find their families. So I can't speak enough about how much my heart goes out to them. This game was for the fans.

Being for real, it's not about the New Orleans Saints; it's about those people sitting on those cots, trying to find their kids. We love the people around the nation who have poured out their hearts to us. We're going to do what we have to do to win football games. But the game is the game. Afterward, our focus is right back on New Orleans.

I can take you to a spot right now and show you more harsh conditions: People lying on cots, not knowing where their next meal is going to come from, not knowing where they're going to stay. (This) is nothing compared to what they're going through. . . . We're not looking for a pity party here.

The mayor's letter told us that the things he saw, you'd only see in a horror movie. Right now, people are trying to find their families.