I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
TOM LANDRYIf you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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.
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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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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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Achievement builds character.
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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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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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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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