Quotes from Mike Webster

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

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.

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 believe if you can't play at a championship level, it's time to stop playing.

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

The only chance I have to be successful is if I'm in better condition than the other guy.

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

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

I'm not a big man and never was. I came in at about 243 pounds and I played at times up to 260 so there was nothing I could have done to match the size of the defensive tackles.

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.

We use the free weights because there is a balance factor involved. It's not just a stationary exercise. It's balance as well as strength, plus you go through the full range of motion with bulk weight.

You don't try to make the Pro Bowl every year, you just try to do things to help your team win.

Coach Noll is quite demanding all the time. He expects a lot from both his players and assistant coaches because that is the only way he knows how to get the job done.

We aren't showing off our muscles. We wear the tight-tailored jerseys for a technical reason. Defensive lineman are allowed to grab, so you don't want a lot of loose material.

You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.

If you want a simple strength and conditioning program, stick to the basics. Run your 400s and 800s, and do lots of power cleans and presses and long heavy sets of squats.

The main function of strength for a lineman is usually to move somebody.

I'm about 255, but I'd weigh under 220 if I weren't in football. In the hot summer, I feel the extra weight is taxing on my respiratory system. I don't mind it in the winter.

In college we didn't pass block the way they do in the pros - they played the I-formation at Wisconsin.

Throughout life, a positive attitude is important because without it one has a more difficult time achieving any measure of success, whether it be in school, athletics or the working world.

Hitting the sled is something a lineman can do to get ready for the season. A running back can't practice, carrying the ball by himself but a lineman can work on his blocking.

Coach Noll insists upon his players having a positive attitude toward the game and, looking back, I really believe that his philosophy in this area helped mold the Steelers into being the team of the 1970s.

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 have always felt that my issues are my issues.