I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
TOM LANDRYIf you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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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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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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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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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 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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A winner never stops trying.
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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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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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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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