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 LANDRYPeople 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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 wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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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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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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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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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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