Confidence comes from knowing what you’re doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.
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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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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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 I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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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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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 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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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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If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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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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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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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