If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
TOM LANDRYMy 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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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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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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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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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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