Joe Horn Quotes (59 Quotes)

We love our fans. We thank them for coming here and showing their support. We should have been booed. We were playing horrible. ... I can feel their pain. All I can do is apologize. I love New Orleans and Baton Rouge. I miss Louisiana.

Am I angry we had to play in New York You're doggone right I am. But we don't have any say-so in this league. That's obvious.

There will never be normalcy. It will never be normal because of what happened.

I want 30,000. I'm not trying to player-hate Coach Mora, but it shouldn't be a double-standard league. A player gets fined, then a coach should get fined under any circumstances.

Under the circumstances with him coming in and playing for the first time, I think he did well.

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.

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.

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.

I don't care if you're staying at the Trump Plaza. If you're losing football games, it's going to be a long season.

He has the attitude that it's do or die. We all know that. We want to stay with Coach Haslett. If we get on that football field and don't make plays and lose football games, then obviously Jim Haslett won't be here and we won't either.

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

I meant what I said at the time, and in a sense I still do. I still don't think we'll see them in the playoffs. When they play the Saints, it's like their Super Bowl. But I don't feel like they're a playoff-caliber team.

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 . . .

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.

We want to play football, ... to give them something, to give them some kind of hope, to give their children something to watch and something to be proud of.

I felt it was necessary, and Aaron also felt it was necessary, to let him know that we care about him and we're very concerned about his injury. And when he's rehabbing, we'll be there for him.

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

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,

Reading the people's lips 'Where's the food Where's water' ... They were there for four days. I mean, drop something out of the sky. Fly helicopters over and drop something, whatever you have to do. That's what killed me, man. I'm cried out. I'm just cried out.

I don't think defensive coordinators will game plan differently because of our style of play or because Deuce is down, ... We're a downhill football team.

If I was in New Orleans and my children needed to eat, and ... I can take a boat and try to go to a Winn-Dixie or a Target or the mall to get something to wear and for my kids to eat, guess what ... You'd be calling Joe Horn a looter.

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 red light camera doesn't miss anybody. It's about enforcement.

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

Anybody can throw money around at these people, but they need love. They need to be able to feel me. So, when I leave, I hope they feel a little better.

For us to be back here during that rebuilding process ... it's history. It will be very exciting to see the fans come out.

The letter had an impact. We respect and acknowledge what everyone has gone through.

In my heart, I'm 150 percent ready to play.

I'm only going to have one question for him, and it has nothing to do with Hurricane Katrina. How in the hell can a head coach pull out a cell phone on the sideline and not get fined and a player can pull out a cell phone and get fined 30,000

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.

Do I want to play in the Dome and be in New Orleans in the Dome with 75,000 Saints' fans screaming for me Of course, I do. Without a doubt. But it's not that way. That's just the way it is right now.

None of us will give up. Trust me.

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.

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.

We're going back and to get the opportunity to support the Saints is a great feeling for me personally. But San Antonio has been a wonderful place to be also, and they have done a hell of a job accepting us and having us here.

Right now money doesn't matter. Who you are or where you're from doesn't matter. Getting to come out here and give a child a hug or give someone a hug who knows that their house and everything that they have is gone is what's important.

Wed rather play our home games here without a doubt because San Antonio wants us,

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 was a little tired today. It was just being off for three days and coming out in full pads and getting your breath back.

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.

We love everyone in the world that has donated their time or shown their support. We'll carry the city and every city that was hampered by the storm.

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.

Man, let me tell you something, the Saints aren't going to be the first team that they made a mockery of, and we will not be the last team that they make a mockery of.

Without a doubt, he's taking it hard. Not to mention the fact that he was going with the fourth group, and in his heart his skills were definitely higher, above that. But things happen for a reason.

I don't expect ... the Carolina Panthers to feel sorry for us. In their hearts, I'm sure they will. But when that whistle blows, when that clock starts, I'm not going to run around and catch a football and not expect Julius Peppers to knock my head off.

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.

Whether he thought it would be more motivation for us or not, it was a good deed. We wanted (people) to know that we'll carry that city and every city hurt by the storm.

Believe that, ... Whether I'm in the NFL or in 10-15 years when I'm out of the NFL, no one's bigger than the NFL, and whoever the commissioner is he calls the shots, simple as that.

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.

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 Sa