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.
TOM LANDRYI’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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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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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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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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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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A winner never stops trying.
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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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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