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.
TOM LANDRYSetting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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 you don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
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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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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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A winner never stops trying.
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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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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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