Mike Tomlin
Mike Tomlin
Michael Pettaway "Mike" Tomlinis an American football coach who is the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. Tomlin is the fifth youngest head coach in any of the four major North American professional sports. He is the tenth African-American head coach in NFL history, and first in Steelers history. With the victory in Super Bowl XLIII on February 1, 2009 against the Arizona Cardinals, Tomlin became the youngest head coach to lead his team to...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth15 March 1972
CityHampton, VA
Two reasons I come down here every year: the food and there are multiple guys here every year.
There's going to be some joyful lifting for us if you will in terms of some of the tasks we have to do.
I tend to attack the challenges that are right in front of me, the ones that I have today.
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.
Everybody with a helmet on is in the mix.
More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic.
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.
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.
I'll tolerate you until I can replace you.
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.