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.
TOM LANDRYPeople striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.
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I probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.
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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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A winner never stops trying.
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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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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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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’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 secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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 at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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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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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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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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