A winner never stops trying.
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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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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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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Today, you have 100% of your life left.
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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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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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