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.
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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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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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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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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I probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.
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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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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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