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.
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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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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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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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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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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A winner never stops trying.
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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 try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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