Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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A winner never stops trying.
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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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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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