About Joe

"People throw around words like 'tough,' asking if 'people are tough' or 'are they mentally strong' and there's degrees to that stuff and Joe's just in another place. That's how tough and mentally strong he was." 
                                  
                                    -Jack Clark



"Reputation grows like a mushroom, but character grows like an oak and he had that character…he didn’t live on his reputation, he lived on his character."

                                    -Ted Albrecht


"I don't know if he really knew how much he influenced people, or myself, in a positive way and that's why his story needs to be told. It's the person, the way you talk to people. The way you help people."

                                    -Wesley Walker



"You see somebody time after time in situations that require strength, character, courage and faith and the guy responds every time."
                                    -Fred Besana
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Wesley Walker, Joe and Fred Besana
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A telegram sent by Tony Dungy to Joe. The two quarterbacks became friends at the All-Star games in 1977: East-West Shrine Game, Hula Bowl and Japan Bowl.
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"I think he used faith at a pretty young age to help him stay brave. I also think that it helped him maintain a focus during a difficult time, lead by example - and also I think that the faith allowed him to extract all of the hope that you could possibly extract out of that situation."
                                                            -Tom Roth


"Joe was not a phony person. He wasn't fake and he was just real...it was never 'me,' it was 'us, we' and so on. He was never a 'me-me' person - not selfish at all."
                                                            -John Roth