In football, you're taught to react by being aggressive, taught to react with violence. If you can't separate that on the field and off the field, you're going to be in a lot of trouble in your life.

We're a road team. We're the Pittsburgh Steelers. We have fans everywhere.

Any time you can squeeze out the opportunity to get better, you should.

God has control over everything, and obviously, everything to everyone is god-given.

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

When I let my hair down, I just let it down. It's more comfortable in my helmet.

Probably the label 'Jesus freak' is fine with me. Because I know who I am.

I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.

When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.

A demon, in a way, is a test of your faith. Because if you're doing God's work, there's no reason for any demon to do anything to you.

A big hit is all part of the game. If you want to make a lot of big hits, you forget about the one you just made and move onto the next one.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

If we can let ourselves, all of us, be united by the simple fact of having a difference, we will be bigger and stronger and more powerful than anyone who might otherwise make us feel small.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

I was somebody who never loved my hair. I had curly hair and wished it was straight.

The 'mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Transparency may be the most disruptive and far-reaching innovation to come out of social media.

Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion!