Ryan Clark

“Any time you're a woman in a macho, manly field, you're going to encounter obstacles.”

“None of us are going out there like we want to lose.”

“I want to be a reasonable man in an unreasonable world.”

“For eight years, President Obama represented us with class and with grace and with elegance and with decency. There were no scandals. There were no impeachments. There were no felony charges. There were no indictments. There were none of these things that were unbecoming of the office.”

“My spleen had gotten enlarged and infected and it died.”

“We have passionate fans, and I love playing in Pittsburgh. You know, I've never been in a place that cares more about their sports, their heroes... I love playing here.”

“The way I play is not predicated on how far I can run and how fast I can get there. It's understanding the game. It's being physical. It's being a communicator.”

“If you believe in God, if you believe in Christ, and you want to show it, that's what you're supposed to do.”

“I don't think there's a lot of respect for the Pittsburgh Steelers in Cincinnati. I don't think they necessarily understand the history, or know the history, nor care about it.”

“I'm about to age myself out a little bit here: I still have 'UFC Greatest Knockout DVDs.' I got DVDs where it's a dude that might be 240 in a gi fighting 175 pound dude wearing boots. Before there were rules, when you had the Gracies, and the Shamrocks, and all those dudes. I was a huge fan then.”

“This is the thing people have to understand about NFL locker rooms: It's a lot of ornery veterans.”

“Once you start thinking about it and you start playing tentatively, that's when those 230-pounders run you over and you don't get up.”

“People that embraced me and treated me the way they did. Man, it was just beautiful. I just thank them, I thank them all.”

“I realize through doing media and certain things and being around certain people that you have make a story, that you have to figure out a way to twist a word, find a way to make something controversial.”

“I didn't want a show that was just about football. I actually love all sports, but I love things outside of sports, so I was looking for that.”

“I don't believe there was a thing Russell Wilson could do to make Sean Payton like him. I think from a personality standpoint, it was a bad match. I think schematically, it was a bad match.”

“God couldn't have given me a better woman. A lot of people think when they see us, I'm really demanding. I'm not. She's just a really good wife.”

“Because you excel in a certain sport, people kind of pigeon-hole you into only being able to talk about that sport. I was blessed to have a great career in football, so that's what they want you to be.”

“When you're inside of a building and you're representing an employer, which for me would be the Pittsburgh Steelers, I look at that as the workplace. I look at that where things can be policed, where things can be legislated because you're working for an owner. When you're out there on the field it's not a work place anymore. It's not civil.”

“I work extremely hard and hopefully people see it doesn't change from week to week.”