Mike Webster

I hate those domed stadiums because the air is goofed up. There's no fresh air, and you almost feel like you have claustrophobia.

It doesn't bother me to play on the road except in the playoffs or in domed stadiums.

We lived on a potato farm my dad and three boys. My parents parted when I was young. My mother and sisters lived nearby, but not with us.

I didn't start playing football on a team until 11th grade. I only got to go out then because the coach brought me home from practice.

I was pretty darn lucky to be selected by the Steelers. A round earlier or later in the draft and I might have been with a team that didn't make it to the Super Bowl.

I don't think age has as much to do with how long you play as conditioning.

You don't go into a season saying you're going to play this many more years, you take it one season at a time, one game at a time, one practice at a time.

As a professional, you have an obligation to rehabilitate yourself as fast as you can.

You learn more every season and that enables you to be a better player.

That's what you realize when you get older, how much you love the game and what a great game it is.

The only thing that matters is performance. That's the bottom line. You're part of the team. It doesn't matter if you're in your first year or your 41st.

If I'm not performing on the field, if I'm not doing what's expected of me, what I say or attempt to get across to anyone else has no credence.

The only way I can have a positive impact on this football team is for me to dedicate myself to doing my job.

My only obligation as a professional is to be prepared and be as good as I can be at my position.

I have never judged myself by how anyone else has played.

I think it's important that you recognize the center position going against the 3-4 defense depends on a guy going in there and being dominant.

My biggest competition is myself and my two natures.

Friends don't always agree on things. I think you can disagree without being venomous about it. You don't stop being friends just because you disagree.

I have a lot of Walter Mitty in me.

Over the course of your career you learn to focus and concentrate on what you have to do and block everything else out.