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.
TOM LANDRYThe secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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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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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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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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