Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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