Tom Landry
A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing.Collection: Sports
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.Collection: Football
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.Collection: Differences
The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by.Collection: Successful
Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.Collection: Football
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.Collection: Basketball
First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.Collection: Football
I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued.Collection: Decision
A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.Collection: Motivational
...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.Collection: Winning
I like the South because it is so much warmer on the sidelines than it is up North.Collection: Up North