When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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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 just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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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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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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 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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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