If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
TOM LANDRYConfidence 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
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I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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Achievement builds character.
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If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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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.
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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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.
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I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.
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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.
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Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
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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.
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