When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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 believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of 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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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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