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 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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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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Achievement builds character.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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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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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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A winner never stops trying.
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