If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
TOM LANDRYReally, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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Achievement builds character.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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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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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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A winner never stops trying.
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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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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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