Troy Polamalu Quotes

I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.

Troy Polamalu

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• I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.

  

  Verite
  • Live
  • Black
  • Color

• Think and grow rich.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Grow

• Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Strange
  • Places
  • Far

• I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Think
  • Start
  • Lead

• I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

  

  Vera Miles
  • Men
  • Love
  • Young

• When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Future
  • Mistake

• My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Father
  • Me
  • Childhood

• Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Society
  • Face
  • Celebrate

• You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Song
  • Perfect

• My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Voice
  • Appreciation
  • Express

• I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • World
  • Power
  • Me

• As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Important
  • Women
  • Family

• Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Important
  • Beginning
  • Breathe

• Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Sleep
  • Dance

• The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Past
  • Present

• I work out all the time, but because it's good for my mental state.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• For two people to satisfy everything each needs for their entire lives is a tall order. Some couples may be equipped to do this. Some are not.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • People
  • May

• I have a lot of albums yet to do.

  

  Bobby McFerrin

• A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.

  

  Ben Savage
  • People

• When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size. Me and my friend were lighting firecrackers, and we ended up burning down the entire field. We got found out, and I think I was grounded for about three months.

  

  Christopher Masterson
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Mistake

• My worth to God in public is what I am in private.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Public
  • Private

• At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.

  

  M. J. Ryan
  • Soul
  • Joy
  • Gratitude

• Lots of people make fun of me, but the truth is I'm just a man. I like food, I like people, and I like making people happy with food. I have a wife; I have two sons. I love them more than anything. Sure, my TV personality might not be for everyone, but that's okay. I just want to live my life. Please, leave me in peace. I am a man. I have dignity. I am a man.

  

  Guy Fieri
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• I take pride in my life-my wife, my family. I try my best not to have football define the person that I am.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Family
  • Wife
  • Football