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.
TOM LANDRYPeople will forget me pretty quick.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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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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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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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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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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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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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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You don’t have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they’re not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.
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