If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
TOM LANDRYIf you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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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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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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