Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
TOM LANDRYPeople will forget me pretty quick.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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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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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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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 at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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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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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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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 were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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