Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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 I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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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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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 try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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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