Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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 knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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I learned early in sports that to be effective – for a player to play the best he can play – is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.
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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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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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 secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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 will forget me pretty quick.
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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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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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I probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.
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