Today, you have 100% of your life left.
TOM LANDRYPeople will forget me pretty quick.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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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