181 Quotes by Troy Polamalu

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.

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.

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.

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.

Playing professional sports, it’s important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.

Material things aren’t important to me.

A demon, in a way, is a test of your faith. Because if you’re doing God’s work, there’s no reason for any demon to do anything to you.

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.

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.