If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
TOM LANDRYI’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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.
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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.
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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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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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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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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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A winner never stops trying.
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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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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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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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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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