If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
TOM LANDRYMost 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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