If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
TOM LANDRYLeadership 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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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 wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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 were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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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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