If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
TOM LANDRYLook 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.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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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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Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
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Achievement builds character.
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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
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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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When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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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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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.
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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.
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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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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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