We train long hours for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It's good to know there's a team of volunteers working just as hard, right alongside us to help us win.

In 1991, a miraculous thing happened, and that's the Soviet Union ended. So there was an opportunity to build a very healthy and new world, on the basis of the change that the Russian people themselves wanted. But for Russia to make that change was going to be one of the most remarkably difficult and complex passages imaginable.

This is an opportunity to look in-depth at the specific issues of long-term climate change, and the lessons that our paleontologists have shown about the risks of abrupt climate change and the issues of new energy systems to mitigate or avert some of the great risks that lie ahead.

I thought it was a good opportunity. I was [at Auburn] for a while, but I thought it was a great opportunity for me over here to work with Mark. I've known Mark for a long time and greatly respect him.

It's a huge opportunity for us. If we play the way we played in Chicago with fresh legs, I don't think it would be a real contest.

I am proud of my heritage and have happily taken advantage of every opportunity to educate my teammates and Steeler Nation about American Samoa, both as a player and in the community, through the Troy and Theodora Polamalu Foundation Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.