Right after the game, say as little as possible.
TOM LANDRYConfidence 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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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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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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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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Achievement builds character.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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 just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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A winner never stops trying.
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