Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
TOM LANDRYLook 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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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 they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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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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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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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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 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.
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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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