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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.

Tom Landry

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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Concentrate Look People Person Really
Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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Being Life Matter Stimulate Talent Whatever
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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Come Confidence Do Face Flat Know Prepare Something Usually
When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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Big Concentrating Defence Occur Play React Team When
I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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Come Construct Defeat Every Learn Something
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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Belief Confidence Do Game Good I Know Motivation Necessary Not Prepared Team
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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Dumb Important Know People Quit Retire Say Thing Top Want Yeah
Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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Away Country Everything Strong Take Win
If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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Alternative Country Effect Eliminate Ife Way
If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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Competition Emotion Ineffective Show Temporary
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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Best Early Effective Learn Play Player Sports
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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Achieve Do Huet Leadership Something To Want
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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Bareheader Brought Cowboy Dollar Every Hat Identity Recognize Seen Someone Time
I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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Between Find God Know Life Really Relationship Right Yourself
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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Choose Football Game Knowledge never Situation Tomorrow Tough Win Worry
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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Archive Coach Ego Enjoy Help Knew People Risk Something Thing

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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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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