I don’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
TOM LANDRYIf I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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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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 you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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 try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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A winner never stops trying.
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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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You don’t have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they’re not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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