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It's important for me to have strong hair in case someone pulls it and tries to rip it all out.
Troy Polamalu
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Troy Polamalu
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: April 19
American Football Player
Football Player
Sports Executive
Garden Grove
California
Troy Aumua Polamalu
Troy Benjamin Aumua
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I work barefooted on balance plates. I do explosive squats on balance surfaces that your body has to use muscles it's not used to. It's all kinds of exercises that your body isn't really used to, and it tricks your body into getting stronger every time.
Troy Polamalu
I love the atmosphere football brings I love being around my teammates I love the struggle in football. I love the fact that it is a part of my life. I don't look at it as any more important or less important as any other part of my life.
Troy Polamalu
I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.
Troy Polamalu
I don't think I have a split personality. I believe the same person I am on the field is the same person I am at home - passionate about everything I do, whether it's reading a Bible or just hanging out with my wife.
Troy Polamalu
Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that.
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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.
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I do have a trophy room. It's in my attic in boxes.
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.
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I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.
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When I cook, it's something nobody else would enjoy.
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I've never thought about the end of my career. I've had this growing motto in my life to live day to day - and when you live day to day, it's hard to talk years.
Troy Polamalu
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.
Troy Polamalu
On the field is a place where you can just let it loose and react to everything with violence.
Troy Polamalu
I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.
Troy Polamalu
We're a road team. We're the Pittsburgh Steelers. We have fans everywhere.
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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
I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, where the play dictates I'm going to go is a different story.
Troy Polamalu
Some days I'm just flipping through the iPod trying to get pumped, some days I don't want to listen to anything and just focus. From game to game from day to day, whatever people do to motivate themselves, they do. I do all kinds of things.
Troy Polamalu
Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.
Troy Polamalu
When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.
Troy Polamalu
