The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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Achievement builds character.
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People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn’t afraid of that. And I wasn’t worried about getting fired.
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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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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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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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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 I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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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