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.
TOM LANDRYCharacter is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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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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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