Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
TOM LANDRYPeople striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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A winner never stops trying.
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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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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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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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