Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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If you don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
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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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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 you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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 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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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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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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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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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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Most of the time, I don’t see the great catch or the long run. What I’m looking at is how the other team defended it.
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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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Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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