Joe Greene Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me.”

“Above all, there is Mother. She taught me how to love, how to have respect for other people.”

“Even when I was playing, I never thought much about the individual honors. I wanted to go to the Super Bowl.”

“When you win and you don't have anyone to share it with, why win? You have to have someone to share it with.”

“I came to the Steelers after four years of high school and four years of college, and now I look on my stay here as 13 years of postgraduate work; I think I'm ready for the world.”

“I believe in being positive.”

“In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played.”

“The kind of role I play is like an offensive lineman; doing a good job but not being noticed. I feel sorry for myself sometimes. But as long as the end result is there, I can dig it.”

“A black man - I say a black man, we got no corner on the market, but every day in some form or fashion you got to prove you're a man. But you want to keep the life-and-death situations down. I can get beat. But there's getting beat and there's getting stomped.”

“The people that I was working with made it all good for me - made it important to me - made it special. I will miss everyone in the Steelers organization.”