If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
TOM LANDRYI 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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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Achievement builds character.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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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 probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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