Steelers Quotes

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

  Troy Polamalu

  Team, Fans, Pittsburgh

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• If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.

  Jack Lambert

  Football, Believe, Player

  "Check Out the Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame Tribute Video" by Bryan DeArdo, www.cbssports.com. August 05, 2016.

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• The Steelers drafted guys who were bigger, stronger and faster than me, but they never found one who could take my job away from me.

  Jack Lambert

  Football, Jobs, Nfl

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• I want to bring back the pride and tradition long associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more importantly, with the people of Pittsburgh.

  Bill Cowher

  Pride, Long, People

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• The black and gold runs deep in me and I will remain a Steeler for life.

  Hines Ward

  Running, Black, Gold

  FaceBook post by Hines Ward from May 11, 2017

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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.

  Joe Greene

  Winning, Joy, Pittsburgh

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• I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping one another. You get much more done that way. If there's anything the Steelers of the '70s epitomized, I think it was that teamwork.

  Chuck Noll

  Teamwork, Football, Thinking

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• The years I spent in a Steelers uniform & the years I spent in the military stressed the importance of teamwork and the sacrifices you had to make to accomplish the mission.  And each emphasized individual responsibility and accountability.

  Rocky Bleier

  Teamwork, Military, Responsibility

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• Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Horse, Team

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• I wanted to finish my career as a Steeler. I felt I just fit the mold as far as a blue-collar guy. I may not be the flashiest, most flamboyant wide receiver out there. But I get the job done for my team.

  Hines Ward

  Jobs, Team, Blue

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• I'd like to win a championship for the Steelers and for myself to shove down Detroits throat.

  Bobby Layne

  Winning, Detroit, Championship

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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.

  Joe Greene

  Eight, Cities, Kansas City

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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.

  Joe Greene

  Dream, Team, Oakland

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• I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a terrible towel.

  Nathaniel Philbrick

  Towels, Firsts, Patriot

  "National Book Festival: 'Mayflower'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 18, 2006.

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• How lucky I was to have played for the Pittsburgh Steelers fans. A proud, hard-working people, who loves their football, and their players.

  Jack Lambert

  Football, Hard Work, Player

  "Fired Up Fans: Steelers Nation never forgets to bring a towel". www.foxsports.com. October 30, 2014.

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• 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.

  Tony Dorsett

  Running, Player, Decision

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• My mother was a huge Steelers fan, so they were my team growing up.

  Deron Williams

  Mother, Growing Up, Team

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• I am 1,000 percent a Steelers fan.

  Jimmy Haslam

  Fans, Percent

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• When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Bells, Salt

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• There is nobody else out there that I would put ahead of Joe Greene. By far the best Steeler of all time.

  Jack Ham

  All Time

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• Getting hurt and watching Tom Brady take over and beginning what's been just a spectacular run of his, and to come back and play in the AFC Championship Game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh, and help us win that game, is a memory that stands out very clearly.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Running, Hurt, Memories

  Transcript: Drew Bledsoe Conference Call, www.patriots.com. May 17, 2011.

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• In my heart, I know I haven't been the best person, the best quarterback for the Steelers, I'm not talking just on the field, I'm talking off the field.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Heart, Talking, Fields

  "Roethlisberger: 'I was dumb, young and immature'". www.foxnews.com. June 10, 2010.

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• Nothing drives me more than to, hopefully, be able to hand (Steelers chairman Dan Rooney) that fifth (Vince Lombardi) trophy. If I can do that, then I would think, that when he brought me here, I finally accomplished what he wanted me to do.

  Bill Cowher

  Thinking, Hands, Lombardi

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• Coming back in that AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, that was a poignant moment for me for a lot of reasons - the magnitude of the game and having not been able to play for quite a while and to be able to get on the field for that game. That one stands out.

  Drew Bledsoe

  Games, Play, Able

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• It hasn't even been competitive. That's the first thing we're going to have to do is just find a way to stay competitive because these (first two games) have been over by halftime. We saw that last year too (on Halloween). It was 21-3 (Steelers) at the end of the first quarter.

  Bill Belichick

  Halloween, Years, Games

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