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.
TOM LANDRYI 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.
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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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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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