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" A winner never stops trying. "
Tom Landry
Winner
Stops
Never
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" As a Christian, I know my life is in God's hands. He has a plan for me. Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations. "
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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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" Right after the game, say as little as possible. "
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" If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. 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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" When a big play occurs for our team, I'm concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it. 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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Time
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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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" 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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Negative
Early
" There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death. If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I'm not that way, and it keeps me steady. "
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Me
Lose
" I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out. "
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Me
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" Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. "
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Sometimes
Game
" Today, you have 100% of your life left. "
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Left
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" Achievement builds character. "
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Builds
Character
" Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. "
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Someone
Want
Achieve
" 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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Achieving
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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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Coach
Life
" Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America. "
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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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See
Man
Hope
" The secret to winning is constant, consistent management. "
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Management
Consistent
Winning
" Generally, achieving goals... which in many cases means winning... is really the ultimate in this life we live in. "
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Achieving
" 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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Game
Good
Motivation
" Being the best at whatever talent you have, that's what stimulates life. "
Tom Landry
You
Being The Best
Best
" People will forget me pretty quick. "
Tom Landry
People
Forget
Me
" If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect... what are the alternatives? "
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Our
You
Life
" 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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Enjoy
Fact
Game
" I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. "
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Learned
Something
Constructive
" I just didn't want to leave the Cowboys when they were down. I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over. "
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Position
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World
Doing
" I've come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike. "
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Want
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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. I knew the risk. To me, it's not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something. "
Tom Landry
Enjoy
People
Me