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.
TOM LANDRYIf 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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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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 just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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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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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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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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