If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
TOM LANDRYPeople will forget me pretty quick.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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Most of the time, I don’t see the great catch or the long run. What I’m looking at is how the other team defended it.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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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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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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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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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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