Quotes from Terry Bradshaw

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

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. It was a great ride.

Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.

I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.

As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy ... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.

If Jesus were on earth today, he'd want to be interviewed by Playboy.

I must have been a really tough kid to corral. I got disciplined quite frequently. I guess that would be the best way to say it. The rod, I wore out the rod. You know, Spare the rod and spoil the child? Well, I wore out the rod.

There really has been only one thing in my life that has made me feel complete, and that is the game of football. The ability to throw a football was my God-given talent. That was my blessing and my passion; that was my calling in life, and everything that I've accomplished has derived from that.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read a statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.

The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give em? Humor. And if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot 's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

Have I told you that I won 4 Super Bowls?