When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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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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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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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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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
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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.
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My hats did give me an identity. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time someone has seen me bareheaded and said, ‘I almost didn’t recognize you without a hat on’, I could have bought the Cowboys myself.
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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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The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
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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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You don’t have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they’re not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.
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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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