Tom Landry Quotes

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

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.

First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.

The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by.

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

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

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

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 on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.

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

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

A winner never stops trying.

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.

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

In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.

I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued.

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 everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing
emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.

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.

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.

To live a disciplined life, and to accept the result of that discipline as the will of God - that is the mark of a man.

I've come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.

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

Right after the game, say as little as possible.

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

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.

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.