You don’t have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they’re not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.
TOM LANDRYThe greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they’re so absorbed with what they’re doing.
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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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My hats did give me an identity. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time someone has seen me bareheaded and said, ‘I almost didn’t recognize you without a hat on’, I could have bought the Cowboys myself.
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Confidence comes from knowing what you’re doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.
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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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