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.
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More Tom Landry Quotes
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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 just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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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 try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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 learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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