As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
TOM LANDRYI just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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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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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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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 wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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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 try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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