If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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 eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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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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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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A winner never stops trying.
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Achievement builds character.
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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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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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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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 try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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