Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
TOM LANDRYWhen a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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If you don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.
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Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
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I just didn’t want to leave the Cowboys when they were down.
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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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
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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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I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
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People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
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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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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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