Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
TOM LANDRYThe secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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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 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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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People will forget me pretty quick.
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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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