Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
TOM LANDRYRight after the game, say as little as possible.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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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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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 try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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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