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.
TOM LANDRYLeadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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 just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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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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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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A winner never stops trying.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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