Quotes from Tom Landry

A winner never stops trying.

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

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

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

People will forget me pretty quick.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

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.

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.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

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