The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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 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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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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 don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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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 probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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