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.
TOM LANDRYLeadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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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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My hats did give me an identity. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time someone has seen me bareheaded and said, ‘I almost didn’t recognize you without a hat on’, I could have bought the Cowboys myself.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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 don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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 eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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