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.
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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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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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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 don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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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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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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