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

I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.

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.

I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.

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.

A winner never stops trying.

If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

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.

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.

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

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.

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.

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.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium and symptoms of schizophrenia.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

I’m fed up with the idiots… the ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who green-light the movies.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

I don’t want people to think I’m not happy when we win – I am. But there’s a difference between being happy for the feeling of accomplishing something and being overjoyed and feeling, ‘This is it – we conquered the world.’ We didn’t. We just won a game.