The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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 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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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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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 know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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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 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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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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