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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.

Tom Landry

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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Confidence Control Gain Have Leadership Look Matter People React Set You
As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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As Christian God Hand Know Life Me Plan
If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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Competition Emotion Ineffective Show Temporary
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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Bowl Consider Feel Football League Me National Play Player Remember Successful Super Win
When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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Big Concentrating Defence Occur Play React Team When
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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Archive Coach Ego Enjoy Help Knew People Risk Something Thing
I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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A winner never stops trying.
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never Stop Try Winner
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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Belief Confidence Do Game Good I Know Motivation Necessary Not Prepared Team
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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Best Early Effective Learn Play Player Sports
If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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Alternative Country Effect Eliminate Ife Way
If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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Been Diminish Keep Lose Somehow Steady Way
People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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Being Build Character Come Back Down Knock Man People Strive
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 try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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Big Blank Book Distract Everything Out Play Try
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.
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Bareheader Brought Cowboy Dollar Every Hat Identity Recognize Seen Someone Time

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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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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