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 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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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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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.
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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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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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’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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