Quotes by Tom Landry - Page 2

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 / Football Player
Coaches
Losing
Steady
Winning
Life Death Me
Diminished
Somehow
Whom
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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 Landry / Football Player
Fans
Football
League
Remember
Remember When
Successful
Super Bowl
Good Football Fans
Considered
Bowl
Won
Feeling
Finally
National
Super
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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.
Tom Landry / Football Player
Competition
Emotion
Disciplined
Ineffective
Temporarily
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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.
Tom Landry / Football Player
Give Me
Hats
Identity
Time Myself Me
Bought
Cowboys
Dollar
Hat
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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.
Tom Landry / Football Player
Concentrating
Reacting
Time Great Long
Catch
Defended
Long Run
Occurs
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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.
Tom Landry / Football Player
Knowledge
Composure
Football
Games
Hands
Losing
Tomorrow
Tough
Winning
Worry
Life God Knowledge
Football Games
Gives
My Life
Plan
Situations
Therefore
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A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing.
Tom Landry / Football Player
Sports
Character
Team
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There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team.
Tom Landry / Football Player
Basketball
Strong
Teamwork
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...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing -- emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.
Tom Landry / Football Player
Competition
Winning
Years
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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 / Football Player
Achieve
Coaching
Dumb
Helping
Helping People
Risk
Worried
Yeah
Me Important People
Retire
Fired
Me Dumb People
People Say
Quit
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Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.
Tom Landry / Football Player
Basketball
Past
Team
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