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.
TOM LANDRYGenerally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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Achievement builds character.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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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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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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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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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 just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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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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 try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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