Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
TOM LANDRYThere are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
More Tom Landry Quotes
-
-
Every coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.
TOM LANDRY -
People will forget me pretty quick.
TOM LANDRY -
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
TOM LANDRY -
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.
TOM LANDRY -
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 -
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.
TOM LANDRY -
I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
TOM LANDRY -
The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
TOM LANDRY -
Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
TOM LANDRY -
I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
TOM LANDRY -
Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they’re so absorbed with what they’re doing.
TOM LANDRY -
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.
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 -
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 -
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