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.
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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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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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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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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