286 Quotes by Jim Haslett

Right now we are a bad football team. If anybody on this football team quits, or doesn't practice hard, or play hard, I promise you I will cut them.

You don't have to feel sorry for this team. The players are going to do the thing they want to do, and that's play football. You look at the people back on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans and what they've gone through the last two weeks and how they're living. Don't feel sorry for us. We're fine.

It is hard to defend the quarterback. He does a great job.

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to figure out that we want to play where we practice, ... We'd prefer to play in Louisiana, of course. But that's not going to happen this year. We'd like to play in the Superdome, but that's not possible. So we'd prefer to be here, so we can see our families on Saturday. We don't see a lot of them during the week.

I was kind of surprised, to be honest, because I thought we would play here or in Baton Rouge,

Pretty funny, isn't it? It still hasn't quite sunk in yet.

I was kind of surprised and taken aback by it and very appreciative of it. So, I think they understand what our team's going through and what the city is going through in the Gulf Coast.

The effort in practice today was good. If we can deal with this, we'll be a better football team in the long run.

The one thing I did learn this year is that things change fast. You've got to be able to adapt. I guess that's the way life is. You just don't know what things are going to change.