Explore Quotes by Tom Landry

If you don't believe in winning, you don't believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.

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.

People will forget me pretty quick.

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

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.

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

If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.

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

The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.

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.

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

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.

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

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

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

Right after the game, say as little as possible.

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.

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 to be.