I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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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 were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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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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