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.
TOM LANDRYYou 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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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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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 they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they’re so absorbed with what they’re doing.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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If 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.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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