If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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 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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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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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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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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Achievement builds character.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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