There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
TOM LANDRY
TOM LANDRY
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Tom Landry49 quotes“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?
Tom LandryTom Landry Achievement builds character.
Tom LandryTom Landry 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.
Tom LandryTom Landry 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 LandryTom Landry If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
Tom LandryTom Landry I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Tom LandryTom Landry Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Tom LandryTom Landry I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
Tom LandryTom Landry 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.
Tom LandryTom Landry As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
Tom LandryTom Landry People will forget me pretty quick.
Tom LandryTom Landry 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.
Tom LandryTom Landry 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.
Tom LandryTom Landry Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
Tom LandryTom Landry I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
Tom LandryTom Landry If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The Meanies want to take away your benefits, and the Weenies want to compromise with them.
Alan GraysonAlan Grayson Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it’s a theory.
Alan I. LeshnerAlan I. Leshner There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
Alan HirschAlan Hirsch Be who you like as long as you mean it.
Alan CummingAlan Cumming Impersonal place needs something significant to fill it up.” We’ve abandoned the old belief that humanity is at the physical center of the universe but more come back to believing we are at the center of meaning.
Alan DresslerAlan Dressler For some that will mean getting the help or expertise of a counselor that can help them walk through and navigate through some of the traumatic things that they’ve been through in their life.
Alan ChambersAlan Chambers From the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.
Alan BishopAlan Bishop