The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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Achievement builds character.
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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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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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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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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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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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