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 LANDRYI 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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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.
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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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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.
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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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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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A winner never stops trying.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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