When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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.
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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 know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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 they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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Achievement builds character.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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