If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
TOM LANDRYI at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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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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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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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 at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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I don’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
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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’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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A winner never stops trying.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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