Latest Troy Polamalu Quotes from Interviews

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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

  Strong, Rip, Hair

  Source: www.complex.com

• Some of us might not understand why LeBron James is the way he is, but fortunately he found his great craft in life.

  Troy Polamalu

  Crafts, Might, Way

  Source: www.complex.com

• I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

  Troy Polamalu

  Football, Player, Trying

  Source: www.complex.com

• Fighters are raised into MMA. It's more about what's internal, not what's God given. When you have a great fighter like Rickson Gracie or Fedor Emelianenko-they're greater than the others because they have an internal spiritual being that separates them from the rest in their craft. They have the warrior spirit.

  Troy Polamalu

  Spiritual, Warrior, Mma

  Source: www.complex.com

• God has control over everything, and obviously, everything to everyone is god-given.

  Troy Polamalu

  Given

  Source: www.complex.com

• 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

  Exercise, Stronger, Balance

  Source: www.complex.com

• There are very few sports where you can find that tranquility. Some people find that in golf, but when you're in the water it's such a difference from the golf course or the basketball court. That's what makes surfing unique over any other sport.

  Troy Polamalu

  Basketball, Sports, Golf

  Source: www.complex.com

• The barefoot component of my training is about strengthening the toes.

  Troy Polamalu

  Training, Toes, Barefoot

  Source: www.complex.com

• I think it's important to cross train. Surfing is a good cross training sport for your shoulders. I don't think I know of any other football player who does it, who can go and paddle out past the sets.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Football, Past

  Source: www.complex.com

• I really enjoy surfing a lot. It's an awesome sport. With surfing there are no mind games versus Peyton Manning, or versus anyone else. It's not me trying to throw a certain shot put further - or to put a ball in a hoop, it's just me against mother nature.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Mother, Games

  Source: www.complex.com

• I've been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I'm not very good, but it's just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music... very few sports are as pure as that.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Couple, Cells

  Source: www.complex.com

• 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

  Ipods, Games, People

  Source: www.complex.com