If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
TOM LANDRYBeing the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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 wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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A winner never stops trying.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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 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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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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