The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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 are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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.
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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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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 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 come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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 eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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