If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
TOM LANDRYI 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.
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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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 I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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