People will forget me pretty quick.
TOM LANDRYPeople will forget me pretty quick.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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Achievement builds character.
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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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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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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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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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I 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.
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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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