If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
TOM LANDRYIf you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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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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Achievement builds character.
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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.
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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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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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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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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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Most of the time, I don’t see the great catch or the long run. What I’m looking at is how the other team defended it.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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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.
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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 they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.
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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 know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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