“When there are doubters, it always fuels the fire a little bit. When people say you can’t do something, if you are a competitor, that drives you.”

The biggest thing isn’t necessarily how I play, but that we win. That’s my number-one goal. I could be the worst quarterback out there, but if we come out with a victory that’s all that matters to me.

People don’t realize that I’m mobile, athletic and strong-armed.

It’s an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I’d be very happy.

I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.

In my heart, I know I haven’t been the best person, the best quarterback for the Steelers, I’m not talking just on the field, I’m talking off the field.

In the playoffs, it is do or die. You win or you go home. As a competitor, you love it.

As your body deteriorates, your natural talents start to go a little bit. You have to bring in physical working out, building, taking protein and doing extra stuff.

I think that this year, I just come out and play smart football. I got some good advice the other day (from CBS Sports Dan Dierdorf): Every drive that ends in a kick is a good drive.

Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.

Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Jerome Bettis-they are great leaders. I listen to everything they say.

Leadership is something you earn, something you’re chosen for. You can’t come in yelling, ‘I’m your leader!’ If it happens, it’s because the other guys respect you.

Usually when we lose a game is because we turn the ball over or not play well enough and usually it is the turnover thing. We have to take care of the ball. It is starts with me and not turning it over.

I think I can get five, six, seven more years out of this arm and these legs.

Big Ben just kept building up. It ended up coming off the field. It kept taking over. Superman kept taking over Clark Kent and you just never saw who Ben Roethlisberger was any more.

I’m going to try to be better than I ever was.

I have a great family. I can call them and they don’t want to talk just football They want to find out how my day went outside of football.

After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the ‘coach’s ergometer’.

Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.

My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we’re converting to sun and wind. And it’s entirely a rate problem at this point.

Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.

Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.

We’d like to get the fossil fuel industry on the back foot for a while, having to deal with us.

I did very much like [Barack] Obama’s attack on fossil fuel subsidies for fossil fuel companies. We asked for that in demonstrations and petitions, and now we’ll try to push it forward.

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)