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.
TOM LANDRYReally, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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 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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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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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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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 you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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