Troy Polamalu Quotes About Football

Quotes about: Football

• 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.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Football, Team

• 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.

  Troy Polamalu

  Football, Struggle, Love Is

• 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.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Football, Past

  Source: www.complex.com

• Football doesn’t define me. It’s what I do [and] how I carry out my faith.

  Troy Polamalu

  Football

• I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

  Troy Polamalu

  Football, Player, Trying

  Source: www.complex.com

• 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.

  Troy Polamalu

  Football, Fields, Violence

• I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.

  Troy Polamalu

  Football, Pride, Wife

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

  Troy Polamalu

  Football, Dad, Done

• The greatest thing for me football-wise is that it's a test of will.

  Troy Polamalu

  Wise, Football, Tests

• Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.

  Troy Polamalu

  Football, Years, Training

• America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Football, Country

• 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.

  Troy Polamalu

  Football, Player, Games

• 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.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Spiritual, Football

• 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.

  Troy Polamalu

  Football, Blessed, Athlete

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