Quotes by Troy Polamalu - Page 2

My joy in my life comes from my strength in my life and in my experience with God. That cannot be separated from football. It is all the same to me. It is one. I am one with it.
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Life God Strength
Separated
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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.'
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Positive
Challenges
Mind
Mind Set
Negative
Said
Positive Myself Me
Myself Always Me
Aware
Positive Myself Always
Challenge
Ignore
Whether
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There's so much that I like about Pittsburgh, actually. The cultural district and museums are wonderful, and I encourage everyone to check them out. And the food is excellent, too!
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Excellent
Museums
Pittsburgh
Wonderful
Check
District
Cultural
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If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.
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Sports
Athlete
Tired
Water
Your Body
Drinks
Essential
Sharp
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I think that's one of the great things about the Pittsburgh Steelers - we're not a big free-agent team. We build guys up through our system to have a better understanding of our defense.
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Defense
Great Things
Pittsburgh
Better Understanding
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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.
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Sports
Awards
Football
Team
Working Together
Team Sport
Trusting
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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.
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Fields
Football
Violence
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I think it's important to cross train. Surfing is a good cross training sport for your shoulders. I don't think I know of any other football player who does it, who can go and paddle out past the sets.
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Sports
Football
Past
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People have this idea that the more pious and devout I am, the more successful I am. Which is very dangerous. If you look at faith in that way, you're bound to fail at both - spiritually and in your career.
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Pious
Devout
Fail
Spiritually
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I don't think I have a split personality. I believe the same person I am on the field is the same person I am at home - passionate about everything I do, whether it's reading a Bible or just hanging out with my wife.
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Believe
Bible
Reading
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I think that's a struggle of every Christian, to be able to get to that point where they're in constant prayer with God - so that everything they do, in thought, in speech, in work, is praising God and worshipping God.
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Constant
Speech
Struggle
God Work Prayer
Praising
Worshipping
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All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.
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Counterparts
Embedded
Hard Work
Nfl
Pacific
Perseverance
Roots
Contribute
Directly
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I've been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I'm not very good, but it's just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music... very few sports are as pure as that.
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Sports
Cells
Couple
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Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.
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Beauty
Abyss
Baptized
Bible
Depth
Fasting
Orthodox
Whole
Words
After
Behind
Clearly
Read
Times
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I love the atmosphere football brings; I love being around my teammates; I love the struggle in football. I love the fact that it is a part of my life. I don't look at it as any more important or less important as any other part of my life.
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Atmosphere
Football
Love Is
Struggle
Life Love Football
Teammates
Brings
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Some days I'm just flipping through the iPod trying to get pumped, some days I don't want to listen to anything and just focus. From game to game from day to day, whatever people do to motivate themselves, they do. I do all kinds of things.
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Games
Ipods
People
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In Pennsylvania, I love the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Farmington. It's a scenic area. We also enjoy visiting the Laurel Highlands in Western Pennsylvania. The mountains are really something to be seen, and it's a great area to be outside.
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Mountain
Pennsylvania
Resorts
Scenic
Visiting
Western
Mountains
Laurel
Resort
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I love to create this green juice shake made from kale, spinach, cucumber and wheatgrass. The nutrients in the juice help me recover after a tough workout. The Kale Banana Smoothie at LYFE Kitchen is very similar to my recipe and is fantastic.
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Green
Juice
Kale
Kitchen
Nutrients
Spinach
Workout
Banana
Love Green Me
Cucumber
Recipe
Similar
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There are very few sports where you can find that tranquility. Some people find that in golf, but when you're in the water it's such a difference from the golf course or the basketball court. That's what makes surfing unique over any other sport.
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Sports
Basketball
Golf
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Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric.
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Chaos
Crazy
Egocentric
Normal
Possessed
Reality
World
Everywhere
Anybody
Aside
Just Kind
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I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.
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Athlete
Blessed
Football
Heritage
Professional Athlete
Territory
Educating
National Football League
Status
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There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.
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Happy
Sad
Accomplish
Deeper
Emotion
Goal
Matter
Stability
Stronger
Trying
Always I Am Me
Then
Sad I Am Me
Always
Me
Am
Sad Always Me
Try
Times
Helps
Reach
Separate
Something
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I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.
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Sports
Barbaric
Football
Mistake
Spiritual
Criticizing
Facing
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The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.
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Meditating
Reacting
Zone
Best Time Football
More Than Anything
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Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I've had my share of injuries throughout my career. It's humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I've been hurt, I've learned from that injury and come back even more humble.
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Appreciate
Careers
Humble
Humbling
Hurt
Matter
Perspective
Share
Come
Had
General
Back
Been
Career
Times
Even
Gives
How Many Times
Injuries
Learned
Moment
Teaches
Throughout
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I work barefooted on balance plates. I do explosive squats on balance surfaces that your body has to use muscles it's not used to. It's all kinds of exercises that your body isn't really used to, and it tricks your body into getting stronger every time.
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Balance
Exercise
Stronger
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I really enjoy surfing a lot. It's an awesome sport. With surfing there are no mind games versus Peyton Manning, or versus anyone else. It's not me trying to throw a certain shot put further - or to put a ball in a hoop, it's just me against mother nature.
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Sports
Games
Mother
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Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody.
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Pride
Characteristic
Motivate
Saints
Scriptures
Types
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As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.
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Football
Football Player
Games
Player
Football Game People
Deal
Everybody Else
Injuries
Tackle
Worse
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You have the women sitting on the left and the men sitting on the right. Everything is to keep your mind focused on God... To me the most beautiful thing anyone on earth can experience, other than maybe marriage and child-bearing, would be the Orthodox Liturgy.
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Focused
Liturgy
Orthodox
Beautiful Thing
Child-Bearing
Most Beautiful
Most Beautiful Thing
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I am proud of my heritage and have happily taken advantage of every opportunity to educate my teammates and Steeler Nation about American Samoa, both as a player and in the community, through the Troy and Theodora Polamalu Foundation Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.
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Advantage
Fund
Heritage
Pittsburgh
Teammates
Every Opportunity
Happily
Troy
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What's really neat about the Orthodox church is that it's like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the Apostles, when they created these services. You walk into that and it's really like... living it. They have maintained the truth ever since the beginning.
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Apostles
Neat
Orthodox
Maintained
Services
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I would say I'm more traditional than I am superstitious. I don't, for example, have to do things ritually before the game in order to feel comfortable going to the game. But I don't think I'm naturally a football player. I don't have that grit and that killer instinct.
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Comfortable
Example
Football
Football Player
Grit
Instinct
Player
Superstitious
Traditional
Naturally
Football Game I Am
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My parents separated before I was 1 year old. I moved in with my aunt and uncle when I was in fourth grade. I was, like, 8 or 9 years old. I was getting in a lot of trouble when I was in Southern California. My older sisters were in gangs. My older brother was in gangs.
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Aunt
Brother
California
Fourth
Moved
Older Brother
Southern
Southern California
Trouble
Sisters
Gangs
Grade
Separated
Uncle
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I didn't grow up around my father. I didn't really grow up around my mother, either. I was raised by a community of people. Spiritually speaking, my father is in Heaven, and that is who I look to for all my answers. And that's why my faith is very strong and why my passion is strong.
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Answers
Heaven
Passion
Raised
Grow Up
Speaking
Spiritually
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When people say that you kind of just get - you know, just feel like a little buzzed or dazed or had your bell rung - they consider that a concussion. I wouldn't. But if that is considered a concussion, I would say any football player at least records 50 to 100 in the course of a year.
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Dazed
Football Player
Records
Bell
Consider
People Say
Rung
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There's so much built-up camaraderie and sacrifice, and football is such a tough man's game. I think that's why it's so popular. That's why so many blue-collar communities and people can really feel attracted to this because it is a blue-collar struggle that football players go through.
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Blue Collar
Camaraderie
Sacrifice
Struggle
Attracted
Communities
Football Players
Popular
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There's rule changes every year. I do wish, however, that the NFL did have a voice from the players' side, whether it's our players' union president, or team captains, or our executive committee on the players' side. Because we're the guys that realize the risk; we're the guys on the field.
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Nfl
Committee
Executive
Union
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After a training camp workout, my body is eager to replace nutrients and energy that are lost during the workout. It's best to have a quick bite about 30 minutes after practice. I like to have yogurt and granola, the combination of carbs and protein helps me recover after a long and tiring workout.
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Carbs
Combination
Nutrients
Protein
Workout
Yogurt
Best Me Long
Bite
Camp
Best Long Me
Eager
Quick
Recover
Replace
Tiring
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I try to be passionate about every aspect of my life, how I love my wife, how I serve my wife, how I serve God. In the same way, I try to be passionate about football. I try to serve my coaches with passion. I try to serve my teammates with passion. I try to serve God, through football, with passion.
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Aspect
Coaches
Life Love God
Teammates
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Fighters are raised into MMA. It's more about what's internal, not what's God given. When you have a great fighter like Rickson Gracie or Fedor Emelianenko-they're greater than the others because they have an internal spiritual being that separates them from the rest in their craft. They have the warrior spirit.
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Mma
Spiritual
Warrior
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I grew up as a kind of nondenominational Christian. I have two uncles who are Baptist ministers. I went to a Samoan church when I was younger. I went to a Catholic school, so I was actually able to experience a lot of different religions. Mormonism, as well. My father in-law, who I'm very close with, is a Muslim.
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Uncles
Catholic
Catholic School
Different Religions
Ministers
Mormonism
Baptist
Religions
Muslim
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People are paralyzed on a football field. People die. You just never know when it's going to be your last moment. I was the kind of guy who would never talk to my wife on game day. Now I'm the guy who's like, 'I love you.' I want my children to know I love them because I don't know what's going to happen out there.
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Football Field
Paralyzed
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It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a football player. And some of these guys have enough skills to do other sports. Soccer could be one. Basketball could be another. Things where you need incredible hand-eye coordination are always options. I think a football player would be able to adapt to a lot of sports.
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Sports
Able
Amount
Basketball
Coordination
Football
Football Player
Soccer
Adapt
Tremendous
Sports Football Always
Guys
Options
Skill
Takes
Tremendous Amount
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