Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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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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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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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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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Achievement builds character.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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 they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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