“When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.”

If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.

I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

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.

A biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.

When a big tree falls, the ground shakes.

Little do women know what big ideas I have in my pants.

My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

I’m always gonna do my own thing. I wanna be something – whether I’m 19 years old working at a pet store, or I’m 19 years old with a No. 1 record – I wanna be the biggest I can be to my crowd, no matter what my crowd is.

But baby haven’t you ever had a dream so big you couldn’t fall asleep.

There’s always pressure on the second album – this one has to be the big one.

The bigger the crowd the better really! The noise calms your nerves.