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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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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