Leadership 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.
TOM LANDRYI 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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Confidence comes from knowing what you’re doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.
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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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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 try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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 wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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