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.
TOM LANDRYIf I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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 eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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 I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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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 wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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