Tom Landry Quotes

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Tom Landry

Profession : Coach

Birth : September 11, 1924

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

Tom Landry

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.

Tom Landry

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

Tom Landry

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

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

Tom Landry

A winner never stops trying.

Tom Landry

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

Tom Landry

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Tom Landry

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Tom Landry

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

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

Tom Landry

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

Tom Landry

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

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Achievement builds character.

Tom Landry

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

Tom Landry

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

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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.

Tom Landry

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.

Tom Landry

I wouldn't think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys' blue.

Tom Landry