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.
TOM LANDRYLook 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
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I don’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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