Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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 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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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Achievement builds character.
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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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A winner never stops trying.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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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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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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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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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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.
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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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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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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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Most of the time, I don’t see the great catch or the long run. What I’m looking at is how the other team defended it.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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