Joe Greene famous quotes

They say that when you're the champs, everybody will try to beat you. Well, I'm glad we're champs, so bring'em on, bring'em all on. If we die, we ain't gonna die running. It's gonna be a fight.
-- Joe Greene

#Running #Football #Fighting

Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart.
-- Joe Greene

#Attitude #Dedication #Ethics

Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.
-- Joe Greene

#Winning #Joy #Pittsburgh

The Internet has brought democracy to so many other things. It's about time the Internet brought democracy to democracy.
-- Joe Greene

#Democracy #Internet

Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.
-- Joe Greene

#Ambition #Thinking #Faults

Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.
-- Joe Greene

#Lists #Social Network #Social

Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to what makes us human. This is why, from the day Facebook Platform launched in 2007, Causes has been honored to be one of the most popular applications, with over 140 million users.
-- Joe Greene

#Doing Things For Others #Return #Causes

Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in.
-- Joe Greene

#Impact #Empowering #Together

Everyone knows the presidential candidates and has an opinion about them. But as you get to smaller races, that evaporates and you can win through sheer elbow grease.
-- Joe Greene

#Winning #Race #Presidential

Facebook is developing, and so are we. Timeline is a big step in the evolution of how we manage our identity online - and it's going to make a huge difference to Causes. You are building a monument to yourself and the things that are important to you.
-- Joe Greene

#Differences #Important #Identity

Remember all of the 'me too' social networks built just to have a social feature Facebook and MySpace didn't have? I built one for political discussion called Essembly. It enabled unique and potentially transformative social interactions, but only 20,000 people ever used it.
-- Joe Greene

#Unique #People #Political

The original dream of Facebook Platform was to enable developers to build experiences that were social at their core, like Facebook Photos, without having to build their own standalone social network.
-- Joe Greene

#Dream #Social Network #Social

Grassroots organizing tends to be most available to big campaigns, but it's actually most useful to small ones. You can't win a presidential campaign without going on TV, but you can win a local election simply by organizing your community. NationBuilder levels the playing field.
-- Joe Greene

#Winning #Community #Presidential

If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.
-- Joe Greene

#Running #Crazy #School

The way to get people civically engaged, not just during the election but throughout the year, is to tap into Facebook and let them do it with their friends.
-- Joe Greene

#Years #People #Way

When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going to be about the presidential election. It will be about the smaller elections in aggregate that have a huge effect on people's lives.
-- Joe Greene

#Book #People #Presidential

People can care about changing the world. But what gets them to act is pressure and social reward.
-- Joe Greene

#People #World #Care

I was one of the first people to join Facebook in February of 2004, and launched one of the inaugural applications on the platform in May 2007.
-- Joe Greene

#People #May #Firsts

From the day Facebook launched in 2004, the profile was the most critical page on the site.
-- Joe Greene

#Pages #Profile #Site

I believe in being positive.
-- Joe Greene

#Football #Believe #Being Positive

I never had a desire to hurt anybody.
-- Joe Greene

#Football #Hurt #Desire

When you win and you don't have anyone to share it with, why win? You have someone to share it with you.
-- Joe Greene

#Football #Winning #Best Football

Going after the QB is like playing king of the mountain. When you get the QB, you're on top of the mountain.
-- Joe Greene

#Kings #Mountain

Over a 10-season stretch from 1967 to 1976, eight Super Bowl champions either were the Raiders or had to beat the Raiders in the playoffs. The Jets, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Baltimore Colts, Miami, the Steelers each of the first two times... we all had to deal with the Raiders.
-- Joe Greene

#Cities #Kansas City #Two

I was depressed. I was just depressed. I did not want to be a Pittsburgh Steeler because I knew of the record.
-- Joe Greene

#Records #Pittsburgh #Want

It brought Pittsburgh into the picture of football teams in the National Football League that, ‘OK, you have to deal with us now.’
-- Joe Greene

#Football #Team #League

I was quitting…As I was taking those steps I was saying, ‘Somebody please stop me.’ Lionel Taylor, our receivers coach, said, ‘Hold up a minute,’ and he sat down in the car and we talked. I don’t know what we talked about but I was glad we talked because I went back. And that’s when it started.
-- Joe Greene

#Car #Steps #Quitting

You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.
-- Joe Greene

#Crowns #Rings

At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas
-- Joe Greene

#Years #Oil #Canada

Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you....
-- Joe Greene

#Life #Love You #Reflection

Even when I was playing, I never thought much about the individual honors. I wanted to go to the Super Bowl.
-- Joe Greene

#Honor #Individual #Wanted

The zone is a place that you rarely visit. It's not some place you go every week. The zone is sacred ground.
-- Joe Greene

#Sacred #Week #Zone

I do play football no-holds-barred. Any edge I can get, I'll take. I'd grab a face mask only in a fit of anger. Uncontrolled anger is damn near insane.
-- Joe Greene

#Football #Play #Insane

As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.
-- Joe Greene

#Dream #Team #Oakland

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.
-- Joe Greene

#Football #Pain #Team

When you think of me as a football player, I would like for people to think that I put it on the line every time. Good or bad, win or lose, I put it on the line.
-- Joe Greene

#Football #Winning #Player