If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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 are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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 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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Confidence 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.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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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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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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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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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