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It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.
Mike Tomlin
It's not about your potential, It's about your commitment.
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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
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Excuses are tools of the incompetent
Mike Tomlin
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We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes.
Mike Tomlin
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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
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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
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You continue to dream the wild dreams that you dream when you were young.
Mike Tomlin
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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
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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
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I'll tolerate you until I can replace you.
Mike Tomlin
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The Standard ... is the standard.
Mike Tomlin
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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
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More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic.
Mike Tomlin
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Two reasons I come down here every year: the food and there are multiple guys here every year.
Mike Tomlin
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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
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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
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Everybody with a helmet on is in the mix.
Mike Tomlin
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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
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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