Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
TOM LANDRYConfidence 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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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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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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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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Achievement builds character.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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