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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More Tom Landry Quotes
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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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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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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I learned early in sports that to be effective – for a player to play the best he can play – is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.
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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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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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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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