Don't worry about me and my family, ... We've lost everything, but we need nothing. If you want to help me, then help me help others. |
Earlier in my life, I would've tried to bury my emotions. Now I wake up at 5 or 5:30 in the morning and find myself weeping for my city. |
I guess I don't want to get too much in detail. But I was just picturing in my mind and weeping with all the people that were left in the city and the experiences they had. Many of those experiences I've heard, many of them I can only dream about. . . . To think of that chaos and the way in which people died and the way in which people potentially are still dying, I allowed myself to really think of that and to weep for them this morning. |
I never would have guessed 15 years ago that anything like this could have happened. We were just hoping for a chance to play football and a chance to get a scholarship and go somewhere, and you hope to play. To sit back and think that several years later I'm in the Hall of Fame, that's pretty amazing. |
I wept this morning thinking about our city and thinking about the many families and children that probably drowned in their homes, so it's incredibly sad. And yet somehow at the same time we've experienced a kind of joy and vision and see an opportunity to do a greater good than we've ever done before. |
I wept this morning thinking about our city. I was thinking about the families and children who drowned in their homes. It's a sad thing but we see an opportunity to do a greater good than has ever been done. |
If anybody's willing to schedule us, we're willing to play. |
If using my name to get Desire Street in the door so people will listen is my God-given purpose, then so be it. |
In particular, the Gator Nation is stepping forward in an incredible way. It's just incredible to see the support from the Gator Nation. ?How can we help?' Those are the biggest words I've heard in the last week. |
It has been the craziest couple of weeks and that has been the driving issue was finding a place for our kids. The longer you wait, the staff starts . . . what are we going to do? What about our families? Should we put out kids in school? It was just starting to slip through. |
It's a hard thing to have a school with no home. For me, what could be a better scenario than to be able to serve kids from New Orleans and be back in my hometown? I really wonder if I'm going to wake up and this will be just a dream. |
It's been a great opportunity for us to continue working in the lives of these kids, especially with the intense trauma they've faced. It's not been an easy year, there's been a lot of difficult things to deal with ... but we're very blessed to continue doing the work and looking forward to what's next. |
More than eight years ago, I walked off that turf at the Superdome with a national championship, ... Now, as I look at the tattered dome, it symbolizes the devastation to my home, my city and my ministry. |
One morning I woke up ... it was 5:30 a.m. and I was just weeping for our city and for the people they haven't found. I don't know that I've been angry. I've been very sad. |
Our ministry's mission is to revitalize the Desire neighborhood. It was once ranked the worst neighborhood in the country. We may have an opportunity to rebuild it in the way everyone would want it to be. |