If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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I probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.
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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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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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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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 knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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