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Achievement builds character.

Tom Landry

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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Best Early Effective Learn Play Player Sports
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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Catch Long Look Mist Other Run See Team Defend Time
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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Come Confidence Do Face Flat Know Prepare Something Usually
As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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As Christian God Hand Know Life Me Plan
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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Belief Confidence Do Game Good I Know Motivation Necessary Not Prepared Team
I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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Anyone Before Else Least Over Position Resectable Took Want
Every coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.
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Coach Cowboy Do Every Influence Own Play Spend Style What Whole
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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Choose Football Game Knowledge never Situation Tomorrow Tough Win Worry
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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Dumb Important Know People Quit Retire Say Thing Top Want Yeah
Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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Better Coach Get Player Really Simplicity Think
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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Football Game Incredible Sometimes Unbelievable
If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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Coach Football Greatest Innovation Pick Say Strength
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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Concentrate Look People Person Really
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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Achieve Do Huet Leadership Something To Want
If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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Been Diminish Keep Lose Somehow Steady Way
Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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Have Hundred Left Life Today

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