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.
TOM LANDRYIf you don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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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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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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