Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
TOM LANDRYThe secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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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Achievement builds character.
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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 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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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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