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.
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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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates 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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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A winner never stops trying.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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Achievement builds character.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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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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