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.
TOM LANDRYIf you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
More Tom Landry Quotes
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If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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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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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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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 I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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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