Pittsburgh Quotes

• If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.

  Jack Lambert

  Football, Believe, Player

  "Check Out the Pittsburgh Steelers Hall of Fame Tribute Video" by Bryan DeArdo, www.cbssports.com. August 05, 2016.

  72 Copy quote

  Show source

• I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.

  Tony Dungy

  Team, Practice, Games

  51 Copy quote

• Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Heart, Boys, Torn

  Andrew Carnegie, Margaret Barclay Wilson (1915). “A Carnegie Anthology”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Heart, Special

  6 Copy quote

• In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

  Roberto Clemente

  Two, Way, I Am Thankful

  "Roberto Clemente Day at Three Rivers Stadium". pgdigs.tumblr.com. July 25, 1970.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• The road to the Super Bowl runs
  through Pittsburgh, sooner or later you've got to go to Pittsburgh.

  Bum Phillips

  Running, Super Bowl, Sooner Or Later

  "Oliers' Trek Just Beginning". The Victoria Advocate, December 12, 1979.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

  Gene Kelly

  Dancer, Pirate, Wanted

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• My first baseman is George "Catfish" Metkovich from our 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates team, which lost 112 games. After a terrible series against the New York Giants, in which our center fielder made three throwing errors and let two balls get through his legs, manager Billy Meyer pleaded, "Can somebody think of something to help us win a game?" "I'd like to make a suggestion," Metkovich said. "On any ball hit to center field, let's just let it roll to see if it might go foul."

  Joe Garagiola

  New York, Team, Thinking

  33 Copy quote

• The good thing about Pittsburgh, it's a good place to be raised... it doesn't tolerate assholes. You're either a good guy or you're a bad guy... When I'm in Los Angeles having these incredibly surreal moments where nobody's saying anything and everybody's talking incessantly, I always have that Pittsburgh voice in my head - shut up, smile, get the job, move on.

  Dennis Miller

  Jobs, Moving, Talking

  4 Copy quote

• We're a road team. We're the Pittsburgh Steelers. We have fans everywhere.

  Troy Polamalu

  Team, Fans, Steelers

  57 Copy quote

• I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh and happiness high up. The only way to leave even the smallest trace. So that all his life her son would feel gladness unaccountably when anyone spoke of the ruined city of steel in America. Each time almost remembering something maybe important that got lost.

  Jack Gilbert

  Son, America, Cities

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.36, Knopf

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Football, Horse, Team

  15 Copy quote

• As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.

  Joe Greene

  Dream, Team, Oakland

  55 Copy quote

• When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.

  Curtis Hanson

  Character, Boys, Location

  Source: www.avclub.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• There was a little bit of hesitancy about staying in Pittsburgh and not moving away for college, but that didn't last long. It was right in line with what I wanted, so I auditioned there and it wasn't a tough decision.

  Zachary Quinto

  Moving, College, Long

  Interview With Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.

  Annie Dillard

  Cities, Towns, Democratic

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.69, Canongate Books

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Two Evil Eyes] was shot in Pittsburgh, and that's where I was born and raised, so it was really nice to be a part of Pittsburgh film culture.

  Julie Benz

  Nice, Eye, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's so much that I like about Pittsburgh, actually. The cultural district and museums are wonderful, and I encourage everyone to check them out. And the food is excellent, too!

  Troy Polamalu

  Museums, Wonderful, Excellent

  "Super Bowl safety talks about some of his favorite destinations". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, newsok.com. February 6, 2011.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

  Justin Sane

  War, Rights, Parent

  "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city as the cobblestone streets and the steel mills, people in this town expect an honest day's work, and I've it to them for a long, long time.

  Willie Stargell

  Real, Cities, Long

  53 Copy quote

• The city of Pittsburgh gleaming suddenly before her . . . so startling in its vastness and its beauty that she had gasped and slowed, afraid of losing control of the car

  Kim Edwards

  Losing Control, Cities, Car

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.410, Penguin

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it in charge.

  Lydia Hoyt Farmer

  Order, Office, Steel

  3 Copy quote

• Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Growing Up, Knowing, Different

  5 Copy quote

• There are certain neighborhoods in America like that - like in Pittsburgh, where I'm from - where people wouldn't think it's even livable for human beings. Those are the areas that I connect with because I come from places like that, and I just think it's interesting how the rest of the world acts like it doesn't exist. But a lot of the best things come from there.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Thinking, America, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

  Lawrence Welk

  Music, Hospitality, Born

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

  6 Copy quote

  Show source