Tom Landry

Achievement builds character.

Right after the game, say as little as possible.

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

A winner never stops trying.

Generally, achieving goals... which in many cases means winning... is really the ultimate in this life we live in.

Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.

I wouldn't think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys' blue.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

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.

If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

When you want to win a game you have to teach. When you lose a game you have to learn.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

When a big play occurs for our team, I'm concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it. 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.

I just didn't want to leave the Cowboys when they were down. I at least wanted them to get into a respectable position before anyone else took over.

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 the field and be prepared to play a good game.

Being the best at whatever talent you have, that's what stimulates life.

There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death. If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I'm not that way, and it keeps me steady.

I like the South because it is so much warmer on the sidelines than it is up North.

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

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.

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

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.

I didn'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 the field and be prepared to play a good game.

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

Confidence comes from knowing what you're doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.

A coach is someone who tells you what you dont want to hear who has you see what you dont want to see so you can be who you have always known you could be.