Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
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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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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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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Achievement builds character.
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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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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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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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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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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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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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