"Speaking in his thick South Florida accent, getting worked up to a full-throated rant, Andre is off on a verbal tear, invoking Jerome, the pain and hardship he had suffered recovering from his broken ankle, fealty to Buddy, what that Emmitt Smith said, how they all knew they could beat New Orleans and Dallas, for that matter, and, besides, nobody deserved to get injured, and even though he was a Christian and didn't hold a grudge against anybody, far from it, and how piss-poor the New Orleans offense was and how good they could play if they just all got on the same page and how... how... they owed it to him, dammit, if they didn't owe it to themselves... all they had been through together... and the greater glory of Jesus... and... can you believe that that Emmitt Smith would say those things?

In general, it's a first-rate, righteous oration, even if it wanders a bit. Some of the guys have a hard time following Andre's eccentric Everglades inflections.

'What's he saying?' a rookie leans over and asks Golic.

'Wants us to win,' Golic whispers back."
- Mark Bowden, Bringing the Heat