Zitat des Tages von Tom Landry:
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.
Right after the game, say as little as possible.
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
Generally, achieving goals... which in many cases means winning... is really the ultimate in this life we live in.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.
People will forget me pretty quick.
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.
Today, you have 100% of your life left.
Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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.
The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
I've come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.
A winner never stops trying.
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.
If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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.
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 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 I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.
Achievement builds character.