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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.

Tom 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.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn’t afraid of that. And I wasn’t worried about getting fired.
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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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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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Achievement builds character.
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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 I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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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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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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