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 LANDRY
TOM LANDRY
Tom Landry on drink
Tom Landry49 quotes“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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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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Tom LandryTom Landry I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
Tom LandryTom Landry 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.
Tom LandryTom Landry I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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Tom LandryTom Landry A winner never stops trying.
Tom LandryTom Landry If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
Tom LandryTom Landry The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
Tom LandryTom Landry 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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Tom LandryTom Landry If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
Tom LandryTom Landry 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.
Tom LandryTom Landry If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
Tom LandryTom Landry People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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I like to drink to suit my location.
Tom JonesTom Jones What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
DiogenesDiogenes If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
Lewis CarrollLewis Carroll Always drink upstream from the herd.
Will RogersWill Rogers We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink…
EpicurusEpicurus To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
EpicurusEpicurus Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud Don’t drink at all, don’t smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.
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