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.
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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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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A winner never stops trying.
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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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