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Tom Landry [1924-2000] American

Rank: 101
Coach, Football player

Thomas Wade "Tom" Landry was an American football player and coach. He is ranked as one of the greatest and most innovative coaches in National Football League history, creating many new formations and methods.

Leadership, Sports

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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.		101
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.	Leadership	102
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.		103
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.		104
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.	Leadership	105
A winner never stops trying.		106
Today, you have 100% of your life left.		107
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.	Sports	108
If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.		109
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.		110
Being the best at whatever talent you have, that's what stimulates life.		111
Right after the game, say as little as possible.		112
The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.		113
Confidence comes from knowing what you're doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.		114
Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.		115
Achievement builds character.		116
Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.		117
Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.		118
I wouldn't think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys' blue.		119
I just didn't want to leave the Cowboys when they were down. I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.		120
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.		121
I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.		122
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.		123
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.		124
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.		125
If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.		126
I've come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.		201

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