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 LANDRYI try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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Achievement builds character.
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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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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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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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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’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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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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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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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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