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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More Tom Landry Quotes
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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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.
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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 just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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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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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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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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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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