35 Quotes by Mike Tomlin

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

It is a player-friendly scheme, but at the same time the expectation level is very high and the attention to detail is very high.

The safety position is almost like the center on the offensive line. It's communication central. He's in the eye of the storm, so to speak.

Teams have been blocking him for three or four years now. He always has to take on a blocker - a tackle, a guard, a back. He has a rush plan just like a defensive end, and he takes it personally.

That's where the rush and the coverage come together. The way you attack it is vertically. But in order to do that, you have to protect, or you have to get a bunch of people out to stress us. If you get people out, we've got one-on-one with the guys up-front. If you keep guys in to protect, we've got enough people in pass defense, and guys are in position to see the ball come out.

Oh, no. He does a nice job with his public image, but the guy is a pit bull.

But you can tell he's a quick study because basically what he knows is what he's learned this weekend, and he's doing things in a sound nature on the field already.

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

Everybody with a helmet on is in the mix.