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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More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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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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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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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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Achievement builds character.
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Most of the time, I don’t see the great catch or the long run. What I’m looking at is how the other team defended it.
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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 I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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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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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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