Achievement builds character.
TOM LANDRYFootball is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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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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Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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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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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.
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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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