The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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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