[That quest started when they tried to leave New Orleans Sunday afternoon. Hurricane refugee Angela Edwards says,] By the time night came, the storm was pretty much slapping us on the back of the head, the rain was coming, the wind. ... We tried from Lake Charles to Beaumont and we couldn't find a thing. We slept in a park with our children and my 75-year-old dad and all our animals.

There are just some people who don't believe women can do this until they watch us play a game, ... It's not a watered-down version. It's real football.

I like playing defense and I know that I have to, ... If you don't, you put too much pressure on your middle back.

Nobody's being careful. Everybody is in a hurry, trying to get somewhere.

We decided to step it up a notch. We're pretty confident, and after we struggled in the first game, we decided that we needed to step up and run the offense. The girls do so well when we get passes.

Those who can afford to pay it out of pocket are paying out of pocket. Those who can't are doing without that medication.

They used to get their medications. Now they can't.

During preseason we looked up at the banner in the gym and realized that we needed to start putting numbers back on it, ... It was pretty pathetic.

We've worked really hard.