When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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Achievement builds character.
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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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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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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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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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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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