If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
TOM LANDRYCharacter is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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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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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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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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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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Confidence comes from knowing what you’re doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.
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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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