People will forget me pretty quick.
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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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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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 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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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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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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Achievement builds character.
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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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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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 at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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