Troy Polamalu Quotes (25 Quotes)

To me, he is the MVP of that team. He's a very accurate thrower. He feels very confident with their offense. His scrambling ability gives their offense another avenue as well. He's been playing great, and I think that's why they've been successful. They can't click without him.

He carries more size and more speed than anybody. He has that combination. As far as his size, he can run you over. His speed, his agility, his ability to make people miss. I think the combination he carries is far above anybody else.

All that comes with a great team when Jerome Bettis pulls me aside and says,' Hey, man, this would be tough on us,' ... You take that knowledge. Hines is great on that, sharing his knowledge of the game and what would give him problems.

I played a little bit of everything today I've been doing that all year, actually,

I see everything in his game. He's still one of the players who provides you with the mold about how to play the game.

This is a blessing for Jerome. Definitely.

It doesn't matter how I feel. It's not my job to make those calls. I really felt I had the ball, but I'm grateful for how the game turned out.

I made a nice highlight tape of him last year. He's definitely a safety I watch. I saw every single one of the plays he played in last year and I took a lot from him.

I'm very excited about that. It's something we all wanted. We've been the leader in this division the last few years. It's pretty disappointing to us the way our division ended up. It will be nice to go up there and even the score.

We did what we could do to win the game. That's all that we can really take care of, whatever happens on the field. The refs do what they do, and we've got to do our part. It's not our job to do the officiating. It's not the fans' job to do the officiating.

The ebb and flows were unbelievable. We just had to stick with it. We knew we could make big plays. We've done it all year.

If we want to go where we want to go, we can't play like that, ... We have high expectations of our defense and our organization.

I truly am humbled to have a great defensive coordinator, ... It's him who puts me in position to make plays.

He makes me a lot better. I couldn't imagine playing with anyone else. He's very disciplined. He knows our defense really well. He helps me get lined up a lot, and he makes up for a lot of the mistakes I make and everybody makes on defense.

I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, wherever the play dictates where I'm going to go is a different story. Sometimes I'll compromise my responsibility because I overcompensated, and sometimes I'll get cut short and just fall in the middle of the play, as well.

We try to take it one game at a time, but the New England game is not really the same.

It doesn't matter what I think. I know I caught it, fell, rolled over and obviously knocked it out with my knee.

It didn't make any difference to me who we play. We have unfinished business with both of them.

Everything's been such a whirlwind since the AFC (Championship Game). Everything's great -- just coming straight from the Super Bowl to the Pro Bowl and getting the congratulations from all of these other great players who have had great careers and great seasons, obviously. It's a blessing, that's for sure.

I thought it was a challenge, and I appreciated it. I enjoy studying how to play our defense.

Playing against him is like a chess match.

It was a really slow-paced game. You have to be really on your keys. All it takes is one play to separate and score.

I just lost place of where I was on the field. I thought he was in bounds. The ref told me he stepped out of bounds. But if he's trying to progress forward, it's natural for me to push him backwards. I think that's probably a judgement call. We just got to live with it.

We're very different football players. We play different positions. The defense calls us to do different things as well.

So I just jumped. It was a blast. It was something that was very deserving for the Pittsburgh fans. They've been waiting for a long time. If anybody knows Pittsburgh and their (Steelers) fans, they know they're the biggest fans of any sport, I believe, and more supportive of their sport than anybody.