Mike Tomlin Sayings

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

Mike Tomlin

#2. The Standard ... is the standard.

Mike Tomlin

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Mike Tomlin

#6. I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that's not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.

Jon Foreman

#7. Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

John Thorn

#8. 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

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

Mike Tomlin

#10. You must continue to dream the wild dream that you dreamed when you were young

Mike Tomlin

#11. And there's no "I love you" message because Steve Ovett has married the girl

David Coleman

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Last time I'd made a trek to Zane's hotel room, we'd been at NerdCon, and I'd been fueled by pride and anger and desire. Now, all I felt was shame and guilt. And love. In

Megan Erickson

#16. Your highest female grace is silence.

Ben Jonson

#17. Excuses are tools of the incompetent

Mike Tomlin

#18. I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

Lana Turner

#19. I'll tolerate you until I can replace you.

Mike Tomlin

#20. The true way to handle a matter wisely is to trust in the Lord. This

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#21. Everybody with a helmet on is in the mix.

Mike Tomlin

#22. I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

Edvard Munch

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

Mike Tomlin

#24. I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one.

Murray Walker

#25. In the financial world it tends to be misleading to state, "There is no free lunch." Rather the more meaningful comment is, "Somebody has to pay for lunch."

Martin J. Whitman

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

Mike Tomlin

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

Mike Tomlin

#28. Is he for real? A hot guy who makes me laugh and loves poetry? Someone pinch me.

Colleen Hoover