Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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 eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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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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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 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 come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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 at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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I probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.
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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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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 wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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