I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
TOM LANDRYI wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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A winner never stops trying.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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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 you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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People will forget me pretty quick.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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You don’t have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they’re not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.
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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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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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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