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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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" 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

" Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can. "

" People will forget me pretty quick. "

Tom Landry

People

Forget

" If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking. "

" I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out. "

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Play

" Generally, achieving goals... which in many cases means winning... is really the ultimate in this life we live in. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America. "

" The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl. "

" If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job. "

" 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. "

" A winner never stops trying. "

" If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect... what are the alternatives? "

" 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. "

Tom Landry

Winning

Lose

" I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. "

" Achievement builds character. "

" People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man. "

" Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. "

" Today, you have 100% of your life left. "

" 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. "

" I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God. "

" The secret to winning is constant, consistent management. "

" Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has. "

" Being the best at whatever talent you have, that's what stimulates life. "

" If you don't believe in winning, you don't believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life. "

" 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. "

" If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation. "

" Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. "

" 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. "