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.
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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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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 they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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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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