If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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A winner never stops trying.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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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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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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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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