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 LandryRead
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.
Interpretation
Winning a Super Bowl is seen as the ultimate measure of success in the NFL.
This quote by Tom Landry emphasizes the high stakes and expectations in professional football, particularly in the NFL, where winning a Super Bowl is often regarded as the pinnacle of success. Landry reflects on the immense joy and pride that comes not just from the victory itself, but also from sharing that achievement with the players and fans who support the team.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a pre-game motivational speech to inspire a team.
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.
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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There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.
Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.
What you hear and what the research shows is that gentlemen negotiate for their first job. Women do not negotiate from their first job and on. And I tell women there is no H.R. fairy godmother. There might be, but you better not count on it.
Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.
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