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.
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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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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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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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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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Achievement builds character.
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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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