If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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More Tom Landry Quotes
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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 at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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If you don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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Achievement builds character.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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I don’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
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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.
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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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