Quotes by Joe Greene - Page 1

I believe in being positive.
Joe Greene / Football Player
Believe
Football
Nfl
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I never had a desire to hurt anybody.
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Football
Hurt
Nfl
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The Steelers have influenced everything I've done as an adult.
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Influenced
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Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.
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Ambition
Faults
Thinking
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Above all, there is Mother. She taught me how to love, how to have respect for other people.
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Love Respect Me
To Love
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I'm probably the only guy in the country who can say he's worked under Chuck Noll and Don Shula.
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Chuck
Country Who Only
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People can care about changing the world. But what gets them to act is pressure and social reward.
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Care
People
World
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Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you.
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Life
Love You
Reflection
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At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas
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Canada
Oil
Years
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When you win and you don't have anyone to share it with, why win? You have someone to share it with you.
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Football
Nfl
Winning
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For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.
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Football
Football Coach
Pain
Team
Capabilities
Coach
Matches
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I'm not a theatrics guy who does things for effect. Whatever comes out is what I feel. It just comes out.
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Effect
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The zone is a place that you rarely visit. It's not some place you go every week. The zone is sacred ground.
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Places You Go
Sacred
Week
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Even when I was playing, I never thought much about the individual honors. I wanted to go to the Super Bowl.
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Honor
Individual
Super Bowl
Bowl
Honors
Super
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Going after the QB is like playing king of the mountain. When you get the QB, you're on top of the mountain.
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Kings
Mountain
Nfl
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Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.
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Lists
Social
Social Network
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I was depressed. I was just depressed. I did not want to be a Pittsburgh Steeler because I knew of the record.
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Pittsburgh
Records
Want
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Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart.
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Attitude
Dedication
Ethics
Apart
Donald
Ethic
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The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.
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Democracy
Internet
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You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.
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Crowns
Rings
Super Bowl
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It brought Pittsburgh into the picture of football teams in the National Football League that, ‘OK, you have to deal with us now.’
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Football
League
Team
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I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.
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Anger
Damn
Football
Insane
Mask
Play
Edge
Grab
Near
Uncontrolled
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The people that I was working with made it all good for me - made it important to me - made it special. I will miss everyone in the Steelers organization.
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Organization
Good Me People
Miss
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If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talking about football, I don't have to take a back seat to anyone.
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Nuclear
Nuclear Physics
Physics
Seat
Defer
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The way to get people civically engaged, not just during the election but throughout the year, is to tap into Facebook and let them do it with their friends.
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People
Way
Years
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When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.
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Football
Player
Winning
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In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played.
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Pittsburgh
Affect
Contract
Dispute
Encountered
Letting
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Everyone knows the presidential candidates and has an opinion about them. But as you get to smaller races, that evaporates and you can win through sheer elbow grease.
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Presidential
Race
Winning
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The kind of role I play is like an offensive lineman; doing a good job but not being noticed. I feel sorry for myself sometimes. But as long as the end result is there, I can dig it.
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Good Job
Offensive
Sorry
Good Myself Long
Dig
End Result
Noticed
Result
Role
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They say that when you're the champs, everybody will try to beat you. Well, I'm glad we're champs, so bring'em on, bring'em all on. If we die, we ain't gonna die running. It's gonna be a fight.
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Running
Fighting
Football
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Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.
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Joy
Pittsburgh
Super Bowl
Winning
Bowl
Great One
Super
The History Of
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When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going to be about the presidential election. It will be about the smaller elections in aggregate that have a huge effect on people's lives.
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Book
People
Presidential
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The scary thing is that players have a one-upsmanship about money; they sign a contract and they like it until someone signs a bigger one and now they don't like it. I don't like that. I don't begrudge anyone money, but it disrupts the football team.
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Football Team
Scary
Contract
Scary Thing
Sign
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My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to the AFC when the leagues merged. I went to the Pro Bowl that season, and there must have been nine Raiders and nine Chiefs. I got to know all those guys.
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Chiefs
Nfl
Nine
Pittsburgh
Raiders
Bowl
Leagues
Merged
Pro
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A black man - I say a black man, we got no corner on the market, but every day in some form or fashion you got to prove you're a man. But you want to keep the life-and-death situations down. I can get beat. But there's getting beat and there's getting stomped.
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Prove
Beat
Corner
Man Black Day
Market
Situations
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If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.
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Running
Crazy
School
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I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.
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Aspire
Becoming
Oblivious
Business People
Coach
Expect
Guess
Head
Head Coach
Heap
Mention
Supposed
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Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political discussion called Essembly. It enabled unique and potentially transformative social interactions, but only 20,000 people ever used it.
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People
Political
Unique
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Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.
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Community
Presidential
Winning
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Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.
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Baltimore
Chiefs
Cities
Eight
Kansas City
Miami
Playoffs
Raiders
Super Bowl
Beat
Bowl
Champions
Jets
Stretch
Super
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I was quitting…As I was taking those steps I was saying, ‘Somebody please stop me.’ Lionel Taylor, our receivers coach, said, ‘Hold up a minute,’ and he sat down in the car and we talked. I don’t know what we talked about but I was glad we talked because I went back. And that’s when it started.
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Car
Quitting
Steps
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I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me.
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Hurt
Urges
Yeah
Me Never School
Couple Times
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As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.
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Dream
Achieve
Barometer
Championship
Championship Team
December
Late
Oakland
One Thing
Pittsburgh
Prepared
Raiders
Super Bowl
Team
Your Dreams
Dreams Your Your Dreams
Bowl
Rest
Slay
Super
Took
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Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us human. This is why, from the day Facebook Platform launched in 2007, Causes has been honored to be one of the most popular applications, with over 140 million users.
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Causes
Doing Things For Others
Return
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Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in.
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Direct Action
Empowering
Impact
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