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.
TOM LANDRYA winner never stops trying.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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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 they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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 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 show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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 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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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