Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
TOM LANDRYI know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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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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If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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 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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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.
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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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Achievement builds character.
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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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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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 were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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