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

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.

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.

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.

How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.

I know how to make it a great musical. I’ve got to. It’s like I’ve got to see it on stage.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing.

Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss.