Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
TOM LANDRYYou 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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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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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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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