When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
TOM LANDRYI at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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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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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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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’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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