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.
TOM LANDRYIf you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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’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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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Achievement builds character.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to 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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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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