Confidence comes from knowing what you’re doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.
TOM LANDRYThere are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
More Tom Landry Quotes
-
-
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.
TOM 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 LANDRY -
Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
TOM LANDRY -
I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
TOM LANDRY -
If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
TOM LANDRY -
People will forget me pretty quick.
TOM LANDRY -
I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
TOM LANDRY -
I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
TOM LANDRY -
I learned early in sports that to be effective – for a player to play the best he can play – is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.
TOM LANDRY -
I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
TOM LANDRY -
If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
TOM LANDRY -
Most of the time, I don’t see the great catch or the long run. What I’m looking at is how the other team defended it.
TOM LANDRY -
If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
TOM LANDRY -
If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
TOM LANDRY -
I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
TOM LANDRY