Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
TOM LANDRYIf you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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 knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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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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