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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Tom Landry

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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Achieve Decide Goal How Main Pan Set Stay Thing Will
If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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Coach Football Greatest Innovation Pick Say Strength
If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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Believe Capitalism Enterprise Free Life Way Win
If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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Cheerleader Instead Mean Only See Think Watch Would You
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
Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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Game Little Possible Right Say
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 don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
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Bowl Consider Feel Football League Me National Play Player Remember Successful Super Win
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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Football Game Incredible Sometimes Unbelievable
If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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Competition Emotion Ineffective Show Temporary
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
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
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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Ability Character Hope Man Person Positive See Thing
Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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Better Coach Get Player Really Simplicity Think
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
Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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Away Country Everything Strong Take Win

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