Tom Landry

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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

As a Christian, I know my life is in God's hands. He has a plan for me. 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.

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

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.

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.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.