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.
TOM LANDRYIf they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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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 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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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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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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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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 were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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If you don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
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