Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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Achievement builds character.
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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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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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 they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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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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