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.
TOM LANDRYTherefore, 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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A winner never stops trying.
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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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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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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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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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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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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 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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