Mike Tomlin Quotes

• It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

  Mike Tomlin

  Willing, Capable

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• Excuses are tools of the incompetent

  Mike Tomlin

  Tools, Excuse, Incompetent

  Twitter post from Aug 12, 2013

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• We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes.

  Mike Tomlin

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports

  "Steelers Notebook: Turf wars - Natural or artificial at Heinz Field?". The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 22, 2007.

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• The Standard ... is the standard.

  Mike Tomlin

  Standards

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• I'll tolerate you until I can replace you.

  Mike Tomlin

  Tolerate, I Can

  "Inside Tomlin's style: Humility, words matter for Steelers coach" by Jarrett Bell, USA Today, January 31, 2009.

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• If our team doesn't face enough adversity early on in a season, I create it. Nothing builds a team like adversity.

  Mike Tomlin

  Team, Adversity, Faces

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• Hungry is a word that I've been analyzing here of late. It's not hunger that drives me, it's not hunger that needs to drive our football team. Hunger and thirst are things that can be quenched. We have to be a driven group, we have to seek greatness.

  Mike Tomlin

  Football, Team, Greatness

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• People aren't very good listeners, by nature. Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done.

  Mike Tomlin

  Jobs, Simple, Ideas

  "Inside Tomlin's Style: Humility, Words Matter for Steelers Coach". Interview with Jarrett Bell, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 31, 2009.

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• More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic.

  Mike Tomlin

  Humble, Selfless, Grounded

  "Inside Tomlin's style: Humility, words matter for Steelers coach" by Jarrett Bell, USA Today, January 31, 2009.

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• I tend to attack the challenges that are right in front of me, the ones that I have today.

  Mike Tomlin

  Challenges, Today, Fronts

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• The good teams, the dominant teams, aren't necessarily dominant in stadiums, but they are dominant largely in moments, when they do what's required to get out of stadiums with victories.

  Mike Tomlin

  Team, Victory, Moments

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• You continue to dream the wild dreams that you dream when you were young.

  Mike Tomlin

  Dream, Wild Dreams, Young

  "Mike Tomlin's 2008 commencement speech at St. Vincent College one of NPR's 300 best of all time" by Bryan DeArdo, www.behindthesteelcurtain.com. June 1, 2014.

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• Everybody with a helmet on is in the mix.

  Mike Tomlin

  Helmet

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• I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is a continuation of something that happened in the past.

  Mike Tomlin

  Past, Years, Use

  "Tomlin Looks Ahead". Interview with Ed Bouchette, www.post-gazette.com. August 01, 2009.

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• I did see the Soul Train picture. That was interesting. I've heard all the jokes. I had it coming.

  Mike Tomlin

  Interesting, Soul, Heard

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• There's going to be some joyful lifting for us if you will in terms of some of the tasks we have to do.

  Mike Tomlin

  Tasks, Joyful, Term

  "Credo from Tomlin: Let's have fun" by Ed Bouchette, www.post-gazette.com. January 27, 2009.

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• We kind of knew what they were doing. They brought pressure on the side with (Troy) Polamalu. The
  way that they played the coverage was a little unique. Again, I’ve just got to do a better job than that.

  Mike Tomlin

  Jobs, Unique, Littles

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• Two reasons I come down here every year: the food and there are multiple guys here every year.

  Mike Tomlin

  Lsu, Years, Two

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• Americans sadly, are the #1 consumers worldwide. We drive the market. American citizens. That struck me - like a lightning bolt! And that probably was as impactful in terms of me having a strong desire to take action as anything.

  Mike Tomlin

  Strong, Desire, Action

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