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.
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.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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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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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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Achievement builds character.
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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 show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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 wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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