If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
TOM LANDRYThere are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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 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.
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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 eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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