Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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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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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 were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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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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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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