I think fans cling to me because I'm a blue-collar guy in a blue-collar city.

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

Guys ask me, 'Why are you always smiling?' Are you kidding? I'm in the NFL, that's why!

My whole life I've been trying to prove people wrong. I ended up beating everything.

My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more I understand.

And for me to have my name mentioned among some of the Super Bowl MVPs that played in the Super Bowl, words can't describe it. It's totally a dream come true.

As players and coaches, we all want to reach our goal. It's up to us to go out there and perform.

I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.

I grew up kind of fast. I had a lot of responsibilities-cleaning the house, going to school on my own, making good grades on my own

I can really say that I'm a pretty good receiver and came a long way.

I was a lost child. I wasn't accepted in the black community because I was Korean, and I wasn't accepted in the Korean community because I was black

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

And that whole do-able/undo-able thing? Yeah. Need I point out that neither Ruth nor I have ever "done" anybody in our lives?

The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.

Sometimes sweat is the best form of therapy.

I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up.

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.