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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.

Tom Landry

If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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Competition Emotion Ineffective Show Temporary
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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Belief Confidence Do Game Good I Know Motivation Necessary Not Prepared Team
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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Concentrate Look People Person Really
I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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Again Being Blue Coach Cowboy Hard Think World
Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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Away Country Everything Strong Take Win
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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Game Learn Lose Teach Want When Win You
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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Choose Football Game Knowledge never Situation Tomorrow Tough Win Worry
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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Confidence Control Gain Have Leadership Look Matter People React Set You
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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Catch Long Look Mist Other Run See Team Defend Time
I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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Big Blank Book Distract Everything Out Play Try
Achievement builds character.
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Achievement Build Character
When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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Big Concentrating Defence Occur Play React Team When
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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Dumb Important Know People Quit Retire Say Thing Top Want Yeah
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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Achieve Do Huet Leadership Something To Want
If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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Believe Capitalism Enterprise Free Life Way Win
If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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Alternative Country Effect Eliminate Ife Way

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