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.
Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
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.
But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.
When they call you and say, 'So you want to play 'Black Panther?'' if you know what 'Black Panther' is, there's no way in the world you're going to say no because there's a lot of opportunity for magic to happen.
If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn't happened because we, sadly, don't look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don't make such boundaries.
Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.
With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.
The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.
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