Because Quote by Mike Tomlin

“I just have a certain edge because I better have a certain edge. This business that I'm in dictates that I better have a certain edge, and I embrace that element of it.”

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I wanted to be a great player, and I wasn't. I never got over that. I take that same energy into coaching.

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