Superdome Quotes

#1. My favorite day was Monday, September the 25th, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana, site of the Superdome. I watched our people who had suffered so grievously through Hurricane Katrina fill a stadium hours before a game and stay hours after the game.

Michael Irvin

#2. At the Superdome, a young man came up to me holding a baby. He'd run out of diapers. He'd run out of medicine. His baby was sick. The guy's saying, 'Help me! Take my baby.' What could I do? That's the definition of helpless.

Ray Nagin

#3. Lou didn't need to tell me, Luce," he said, looking between me and the field. "I don't need someone to tell me when my girl's in the stands. I could pick you out even if I was playing in the Superdome and you were tucked into the back row.

Nicole Williams

#4. If it were my decision, I'd knock the Superdome down. If I couldn't knock it down, I'd just open the roof and gut the whole inside - totally modernize it. If you just dust it off and paint a little bit but don't reimage it, the legacy will be horrible.

Ray Nagin

#5. I was among the people in the Superdome. I knew what was going on every minute. I did not have air conditioning nor shower facilities. I made decisions based upon facts and not what I thought was going to happen. So history will judge me based upon those actions.

Ray Nagin

#6. To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.

Steve Gleason

#7. History will remember the Superdome debacle - caused by the dearth of evacuation buses - as "Nagin's Folly," mayoral incompetence of the first order.

Douglas Brinkley

#8. I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.

Brett Favre

#9. But you see now baby, whether you have a ph.d., d.d. or no d, we're in this bag together. And whether you are from Morehouse or Nohouse, we,re still in this bag together.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#10. When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.

Tom Robbins

#11. We have no time. Actually, I take that back, we make no time to do these things. And I get it.

Claire Contreras

#12. A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.

Andrew Mellon

#13. I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

Paula Modersohn-Becker