Troy Polamalu
Troy Polamalu
Troy Aumua Polamaluis a former American football strong safety who played his entire twelve-year career for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He played college football for the University of Southern California, and earned consensus All-American honors. He was chosen by the Steelers in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He was a member of two of the Steelers' Super Bowl championship teams, and was the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2010...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth19 April 1981
CityGarden Grove, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I truly am humbled to have a great defensive coordinator, ... It's him who puts me in position to make plays.
It's not just me. It's everybody. That's the great thing about our team. We all played our parts and our role. No big stars.
Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.
There's a lot of Samoans in pro football because it's closely related to a family atmosphere.
It was a really slow-paced game. You have to be really on your keys. All it takes is one play to separate and score.
They put seven points on the board, which isn't good enough to beat our offense, but they did move the ball.
We're going to have a tough test, definitely. It's our next game -- it's just as important as (the) game against the Texans. But it's going to be our toughest test to date, for sure.
I know myself, I missed a lot of tackles -- stuff like that ... (Against Tennessee), it's more of what we weren't doing, which is good because we know we can correct those mistakes.
I really felt I had the ball. But it doesn't matter what I think.
I played a little bit of everything today; I've been doing that all year, actually,
But I think if any team could do it, it's this team. Maybe that's why our season has gone the way it has.
If we want to go where we want to go, we can't play like that, ... We have high expectations of our defense and our organization.
You have the women sitting on the left and the men sitting on the right. Everything is to keep your mind focused on God... To me the most beautiful thing anyone on earth can experience, other than maybe marriage and child-bearing, would be the Orthodox Liturgy.
The best thing about football for me is the reacting. It's a lot of instincts. But training, for me, it's more for the meditating. And I spend more time training than actually playing football. So I get into that zone during training more than anything.