I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
TOM LANDRYBeing the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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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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If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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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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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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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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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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