Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
TOM LANDRYI try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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 a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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 you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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