Wayne Gandy People Quotations

It's been emotional for us, but we're not in the same situation as the people in those shelters. It was a good break for us to just be able to go out and play football, but it's not all about us anymore.

I was a little disgusted about people making at least six-figure incomes worrying about anything. Sometimes you forget to think of the lesser man. Sometimes you forget to put things in perspective.

Our situation is uncomfortable. But for the people in New Orleans it's catastrophic.

We've been emotionally wiped out. We're not in the same situation as the people that are in those shelters. But as far as trying to win a football game ...

People don't really understand that a lot of those people are not going back to New Orleans. You don't rebuild ghettos.

It was worse than what you actually think. If you go and talk to these people personally, they'll tell you something that sounds like Steven Spielberg made a movie about. That's what touched me. I think about the two or three stories I sat there and heard. It'll change your whole view of how people actually can be. ... It makes you feel like what we're going through as a team is very, very minimal.

We were playing to show people how New Orleans feels -- the resolve to push on and come back. And, at least for today, this team exemplified that.

We wanted to give those people in the shelters something to cheer about.