I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
TOM LANDRYWhen a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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Leadership 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.
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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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A winner never stops trying.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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 eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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Achievement builds character.
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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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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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Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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