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My mother was a huge Steelers fan, so they were my team growing up.

I came to the Steelers after four years of high school and four years of college, and now I look on my stay here as 13 years of postgraduate work; I think I'm ready for the world.

The people that I was working with made it all good for me - made it important to me - made it special. I will miss everyone in the Steelers organization.

The single most important thing we had in the Steelers of the '70s was the ability to work together.

I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a 'Terrible Towel.'

You remember driving your kids to Little League, and they're nervous about making the team, and you're encouraging them. Forty years down the road, we're having the same conversation. Only it's about the Ravens and Steelers, or Stanford and Cal.

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.

I've grown up watching football my whole life.

I grew up knowing I would be good at athletics, and dreams of a Super Bowl were always within reach as long as I progressed.