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.
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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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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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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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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