When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
TOM LANDRYMost of the time, I don’t see the great catch or the long run. What I’m looking at is how the other team defended it.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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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Achievement builds character.
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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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Every coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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.
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Most of the time, I don’t see the great catch or the long run. What I’m looking at is how the other team defended it.
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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 you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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