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.
TOM LANDRYAs a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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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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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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