If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
TOM LANDRYPeople striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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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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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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You don’t have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they’re not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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