If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
TOM LANDRYIf you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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 know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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A winner never stops trying.
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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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