If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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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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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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 knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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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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