If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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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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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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Achievement builds character.
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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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