Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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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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People will forget me pretty quick.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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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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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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A winner never stops trying.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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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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