My dad was a good competitor. I know he'd think I was a little off the charts.

Troy Polamalu was a fascinating player, and that made him.

We're not going to do anything different for this game since we're not treating this game any different than another game. Every game is a championship game for us, so we'll treat this one, the last one and the next one exactly the same. And that goes for our practices leading up to it as well.

He has to be a great teacher. You have to have the right stuff and in the right proportions, and you have to convey that to the coaches, and then to the players.

Once you're a football player, you're a football player for life. You always think of yourself in terms of that. We all do. It's hard to get rid of when you can't play anymore.

It comes down to taking care of the people in your program and making them the best they can be-not giving up on them and never failing to be there for them.

You're either competing or you're not.