I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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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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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’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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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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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