“I probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.”

Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.

I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.

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

Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.

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.

Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

I’ve gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we’re going to see if we can’t bring a few laughs to these soldiers, raise some money, and hopefully lift their spirits.

People, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

You are never used of God to bring blessing until God has opened your eyes and made you see things as they are.