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.
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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
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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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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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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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A winner never stops trying.
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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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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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