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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More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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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 win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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 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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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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A winner never stops trying.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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