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" If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking. "
Tom Landry
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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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" The secret to winning is constant, consistent management. "
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" The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out. "
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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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" 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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" Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can. "
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" I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat. "
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" I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God. "
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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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" If you don't believe in winning, you don't believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life. "
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Free
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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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" If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job. "
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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. "
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" People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man. "
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People
Man
" If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation. "
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Strength
Innovation
Football
" I've come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike. "
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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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" Being the best at whatever talent you have, that's what stimulates life. "
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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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" Achievement builds character. "
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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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