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 LANDRYTake away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
More Tom Landry Quotes
-
-
Today, you have 100% of your life left.
TOM LANDRY -
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
TOM LANDRY -
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.
TOM LANDRY -
Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
TOM LANDRY -
There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
TOM LANDRY -
Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they’re so absorbed with what they’re doing.
TOM LANDRY -
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.
TOM LANDRY -
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.
TOM LANDRY -
I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
TOM LANDRY -
I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
TOM LANDRY -
People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
TOM LANDRY -
Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
TOM LANDRY -
I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
TOM LANDRY -
If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
TOM LANDRY -
If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
TOM LANDRY