If you don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
TOM LANDRYBeing the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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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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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.
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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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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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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 just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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Achievement builds character.
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