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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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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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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 at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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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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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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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