If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
TOM LANDRYTake away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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 they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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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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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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I probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.
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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 striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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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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People will forget me pretty quick.
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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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