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MIKE TOMLIN

2008 MOTOROLA COACH OF THE YEAR

2008 DAPPER DAN SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR

Youngest head coach to win the Super Bowl

In his second season as head coach, Mike Tomlin took his five-time Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers to Super Bowl XLIII and defeated the Arizona Cardinals 27-23, winning an unprecedented 6th Lombardi Trophy for the Rooney's and the Steeler Nation.

At age 36, Coach Tomlin became the youngest head coach to win a Super Bowl game. One of Coach Tomlin's talents is applying the right quote to the right football or life moment, so we're going to share some of his quotes leading up to and through his Super Bowl XLIII victory. Some of his quotes are new, and others are worth repeating.


Mike Tomlin
PITTSBURGH STEELERS HEAD COACH
Super Bowl XLIII Champion


 

  
MIKE TOMLIN QUOTES

  

"Classic AFC North warfare."
Regarding the upcoming Steelers-Bengals game.

"Big men on blades of grass... the most violent team is going to win."
Comments before the first 2009 regular season game vs the Titans

"We're going to guard against feelings of entitlement. We're simply going to be blue collar humble and start a process of building our football team."
Coach Tomlin looking ahead to the 2009 season

"When you step into the stadium, it's not too big for some, and maybe it's too big for others. People usually distinguish themselves positively or negatively when you start playing football games."
Comments leading up to the 2009 pre-season opener against the visiting Cardinals

"We've gotta have Steeler kind of tempo in our play"
Comment about the level of play to expect in their upcoming 2009 pre-season opener

"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."
Referring to the team's poor start in 2006 following their Super Bowl win

"The '08 Steelers are the '08 Steelers, we're here team-building for '09, we're not assuming anything, that's a dangerous thing. We're going to guard against feelings of entitlement. We're simply going to be blue-collar and humble and we're going to start a process of building our football team.”
As the 2009 training camp begins in Latrobe, following a 6th Lombardi


"I don't view it as something like I won the lottery. I'm proud of the sacrifices and the accomplishments of the men involved, but it was something I thought we were capable of. So the end result doesn't register the response that winning the lottery or something of that nature, where you have to pinch yourself."
In reference to winning his first Lombardi trophy

"I'm a private person by nature, this is what I do, it's not who I am."

"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."
Preparing for the 2009 season

"It's not something that I'm going to attempt to avoid. I think if I attempt to avoid it, I may acknowledge the possibility of it happening exists."
Addressing the possibility of another post-Super Bowl slump like 2006

"In order to be a candidate for a championship caliber team you have to work hard, but within that we have to find a delicate balance of working smart."
Changes in preparation after a long season Super Bowl season

"I'm always moving to new challenges. I'm a moving on kind of guy."

"Steeler Nation, you leave us all speechless, man. We just appreciate the love. How about the Steelers? How about the greatest fans in the world? How about number six? Thank you, we love you guys."
During the Super Bowl XLIII victory celebration in Pittsburgh

"I actually never even touched it (the Lombardi trophy during the postgame celebration). I see five of them every day when I go to work. I know what they look like. I'm just glad that I can do my part in terms of contributing to that trophy case."
Mike Tomlin's low key approach to winning his first Lombardi trophy with the Steelers

"I'm very blessed to be hired by the Rooney family. They took a chance on a 34-year-old coach with not a long resume. They took a little criticism for it, and I took it personal. I wanted to ante up and add to their legacy."

"We don't live in our fears, we live in our hopes."
Coach Tomlin following the Steelers win over the Rams in 2007

"Steeler football is 60 minutes. It's never going to be pretty. Throw style points out the window, but these guys will fight to the end. We didn't blink."
Following the Steelers' unprecedented 6th Super Bowl win

"Nothing stays the same in this game, a few will come and go, those that remain, the roles will change, some will ascend, some will descend, that's the nature of today's NFL. Our focus will be about being The One at the end of the season."
Press conference following Super Bowl XLIII win

"What he did tonight is similar to what he did for us in the month of January. In big moments, we know what we can get from him."
Talking about Super Bowl XLIII MVP Santonio Holmes

"Hey, Chief, this is for you. This guy right here, he's not my father, but he's my father. I love you, man."
Talking about his stepfather Leslie Copeland

"I wouldn't want to have won this any other way, with everybody contributing. I'm just glad I could do my part to contribute to that trophy case."
Talking about the Steelers' 6th Lombardi trophy

"The personal sacrifices she made for my brother and me, and allowed us to do what it is we desire to do. In the midst of it all, we had a tough upbringing. But never once did we think that there was something we couldn't do. She's as big a reason as any why I do what I do today."
Talking about his mother

"You won't hear me say words like 'repeat' or 'defending' because it will be brand new. This group will always be special to me. Sometime soon that group will be placed with others in history, they'll be just that, history."
Looking toward the 2009 season

"It was my intent to come in here in 2007 and draw some hard lines in the dirt as a basis of forming a relationship with our football team. It's a heck of a lot easier to pull back than it is to put down."
Talking about his first season as head coach of the Steelers

"I'm probably more in my comfort zone here with the football team than I was a year ago. Not that I wasn't comfortable but this is more of who I am."
Super Bowl week in Tampa

"There are 30 other teams I'm sure that would love to have the burden that we have this week. So from that standpoint we're going to embrace it."
Regarding the media attention and hype of Super Bowl week.

"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'm not going to get enamored with where we are right now."
At Super Bowl XLIII

"This group understands the standard that comes with being a Pittsburgh Steeler."

"There's some above-the-neck preparation that we'll continue big. There's some below-the-neck preparation that some guys need."
Getting his team ready for Super Bowl XLIII.

"Playoff time comes around, you just have to be the same guy. You gotta do the same things that got you there."

"...we're in January, it's time for young guys to grow up."
Responding to a question about a dropped pass vs the Ravens.

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

"It's never been our goal (just) to get to the Super Bowl. I think that our guys will keep that in perspective. We're going to Tampa to do the job."

"To be quite frank, it is not normalcy waiting for us on the other end."
Referring to the week of hype leading up to the Super Bowl.

"We're going to be a humble group. We're going to be a grounded group. We're going to be a selfless group."
Part of Mike Tomlin's preparation philosophy for Super Bowl XLIII

"What we are doing here today pales in comparison to what's going on in our nation's capitol with President Obama's inauguration"
After the announcement of a 1-hour delay for his weekly news conference.

"Iron sharpens iron."
In regards to the high level of competition faced by the Steelers in 2008.

"I am not a proponent of the Gatorade bath"
After avoiding a direct hit following the AFC Championship game.

"We are definitely not going to cut him out. We are going to save a seat on the bus for 86."
Referring to the rehabilitation required to get Hines Ward into the Super Bowl XLIII game.

"But I am not a jewelry guy. It is more about the experience for me than it is the ring."
When asked why he doesn't wear his first Super Bowl ring.

"Change is part of this business, it's going to happen. Sometimes it's going to be more unpleasant than others, but it's the nature of what we do."
Following the release of Joey Porter in 2007.

"Be where you're at."
Coach Tomlin as defensive backs coach
     

 

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