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.
TOM LANDRYI know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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A winner never stops trying.
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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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 they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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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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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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