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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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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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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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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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