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.
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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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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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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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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You don’t have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they’re not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.
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I learned early in sports that to be effective – for a player to play the best he can play – is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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 knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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