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 LANDRYSetting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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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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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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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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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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