If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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.
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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 they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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 try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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