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.
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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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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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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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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Achievement builds character.
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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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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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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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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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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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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A winner never stops trying.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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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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