“If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.”

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.

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.

As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.

People will forget me pretty quick.

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.

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.

Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.

I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.

If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.

Right after the game, say as little as possible.

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.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.

If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.

All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place.

Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one’s mind should be stable and unmoving, like a wall.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They’re not the Way.

For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal