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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More Tom Landry Quotes
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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A winner never stops trying.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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Every coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.
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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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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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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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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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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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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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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