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.
TOM LANDRYIf you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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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 you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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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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