Words matter. These are the best Tom Landry Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
Today, you have 100% of your life left.
I probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
People striving, being knocked down and coming back… this is what builds character in a man.
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.
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.
Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn’t afraid of that. And I wasn’t worried about getting fired. I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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.
If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?
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 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.
I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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.
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.
Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they’re so absorbed with what they’re doing.
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.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Right after the game, say as little as possible.
If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective. If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
A winner never stops trying.
