Every coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.
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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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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 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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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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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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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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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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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