Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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.
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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.
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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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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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A winner never stops trying.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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