If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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 show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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A winner never stops trying.
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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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Confidence comes from knowing what you’re doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.
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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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 will forget me pretty quick.
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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.
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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 you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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