If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
TOM LANDRYI’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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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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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 I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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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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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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