Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
TOM LANDRYTake away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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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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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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