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Tom Landry

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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.


— Tom Landry


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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.


— Tom Landry


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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


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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.


— Tom Landry


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


— Tom Landry


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


— Tom Landry


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A winner never stops trying.


— Tom Landry


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


— Tom Landry


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Today, you have 100% of your life left.


— Tom Landry


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


— Tom Landry


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About Tom Landry

Tom Landry Quotes




Did you know about Tom Landry?

He attended the University of Texas at Austin as an industrial engineering major. The series Friday Night Lights features a character named Landry hinted to be named after Tom Landry given the town's obsession with football. Landry's father had suffered from rheumatism and relocated to the warmer climate of Texas.

He was named the NFL Coach of the Year in 1966 and the NFC Coach of the Year in 1975. He invented the now popular 4–3 defense and the "flex defense" system made famous by the "Doomsday Defense" squads he created during his 29 year tenure with the Dallas Cowboys. More impressive is the Cowboys' appearance in 10 NFC Championship games in the 13-year span from 1970 to 1982.

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