Tom Landry Quotes
- There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say…
- Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player…
- Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be
- Today, you have 100% of your life left.
- The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted…
- When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
- To live a disciplined life, and to accept the result of that discipline as the will of God - that is the mark of a…
- Right after the game, say as little as possible.
- First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.
- The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.
- A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.
- A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.
- The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by.
- Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.
- I like the South because it is so much warmer on the sidelines than it is up North.
- There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.
- A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn…
- ...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't…
- Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
- Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.