If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
TOM LANDRYAchievement builds character.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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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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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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