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 LANDRYTake away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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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.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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.
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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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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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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.
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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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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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