Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
TOM LANDRYLeadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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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 at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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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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People 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.
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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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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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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