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.
TOM LANDRYRight after the game, say as little as possible.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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 are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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A winner never stops trying.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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