I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
TOM LANDRYIf they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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 you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
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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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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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 don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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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