Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
TOM LANDRYIf you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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