Mike Tomlin Quotes

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

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

Excuses are tools of the incompetent

I'll tolerate you until I can replace you.

The Standard ... is the standard.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Everybody with a helmet on is in the mix.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.