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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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 know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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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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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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You don’t have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they’re not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.
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