I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
TOM LANDRYWhen you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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Achievement builds character.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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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 at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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