People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn’t afraid of that. And I wasn’t worried about getting fired.
TOM LANDRYFootball is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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People will forget me pretty quick.
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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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 eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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 just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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