“I had one friend who lived in New Orleans, so I had a way to personally relate to everyone who was in the situation. (But) at that point, everyone becomes part of our United Sates family. We have to go back to the original Constitution and say, 'We the people.' We the people need to respond.”
“Us being men, feminine hygiene products were something we would never consider. Once a local woman brought that up, we called up the radio station and asked them to mention it.”
“We essentially ran ourselves dead broke doing it. ... We were originally thinking (of going to) Baton Rouge or Houston, but gas supplies were short, and local radio was saying that if you were going anywhere closer to the disaster, make sure you had armed yourself - to essentially have a shotgun or something of that nature in your vehicle.”
“Some of the forwards on the other teams are older and bigger than me so they are usually faster, ... Sometimes I think I would be better at midfield.”
“I like scoring goals and creating plays, but I think I would be more useful at midfield, ... My brother always played defense, but last year, they asked him to play forward because we needed help there and we had a lot of good defenders.”
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