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.
TOM LANDRYA winner never stops trying.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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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.
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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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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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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Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
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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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