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.
TOM LANDRYIf you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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 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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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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’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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 secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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 will forget me pretty quick.
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