Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
TOM LANDRYEvery 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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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 wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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 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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Achievement builds character.
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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 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 at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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