Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.
TOM LANDRYIf you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
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Achievement builds character.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn’t afraid of that. And I wasn’t worried about getting fired.
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A winner never stops trying.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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I learned early in sports that to be effective – for a player to play the best he can play – is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.
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