Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates 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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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I learned early in sports that to be effective – for a player to play the best he can play – is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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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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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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A winner never stops trying.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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Achievement builds character.
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If you don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
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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 you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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