When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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If you don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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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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