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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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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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A winner never stops trying.
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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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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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If you don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
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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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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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