Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
I’m me. I can’t put on airs. I’m not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it’s all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I’m going to let you take from me.
I’m a strong believer that you should practice like you play. Little things make big things happen.
You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has always been to prove certain people wrong – to prove to them I can do it despite what they think or say.
You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players.
The Rooneys are very classy. They’re very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you’re part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don’t have a lot of rambunctious players running around.
I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: ‘Boy, if you don’t learn to control that temper, you’re gonna kill somebody.’
I’ve always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that’s when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.
All a lot of women see are dollar signs.
My four older brothers were my favorite players. That’s why I got into football and sports.
Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you’re going to do with your life.
People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.
It’s painful, man, for my daughters to say they’re scared of me.
You hope in this life that you grow and don’t always repeat your mistakes.
Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.