I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
TOM LANDRYThere are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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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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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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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Confidence comes from knowing what you’re doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.
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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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Achievement builds character.
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