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.
TOM LANDRYI just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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A winner never stops trying.
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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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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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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’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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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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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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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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