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 LANDRYTake away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
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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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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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