I have a great family. I can call them and they don't want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football.

When there are doubters, it always fuels the fire a little bit. When people say you can't do something, if you are a competitor, that drives you.

Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you.

You have to be able to step up when your name is called.

It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy.

In my heart, I know I haven't been the best person, the best quarterback for the Steelers, I'm not talking just on the field, I'm talking off the field.

I think I can get five, six, seven more years out of this arm and these legs.

I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.

In the playoffs, it is do or die. You win or you go home. As a competitor, you love it.

I'm going to try to be better than I ever was.

My family and friends and teammates, just having their support has been unbelievable.

Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.

Plain as a pike-staff.

But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.

All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean." Like vegetable, she thought, before they go in the stew.

To this day, nothing makes me happier than finding a TV show I really love.

Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond.

Every little obstacle-every fall you have-is an opportunity.