Tom Landry Quotes

• A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear,
  who has you see what you don't want to see,
  so you can be who you have always known you could be

  Tom Landry

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

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

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  189 Copy quote

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

  Tom Landry

  Football, Giving Up, Nfl

  179 Copy quote

• There's a misconception about teamwork. Teamwork is the ability to have different thoughts about things; it's the ability to argue and stand up and say loud and strong what you feel. But in the end, it's also the ability to adjust to what is the best for the team.

  Tom Landry

  Basketball, Teamwork, Strong

  194 Copy quote

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

  Tom Landry

  Basketball, Men, Coaching

  177 Copy quote
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  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.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  139 Copy quote
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  In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.

  Tom Landry

  Character, Adversity, Achievement

  Tom Landry, Gregg A. Lewis (1990). “Tom Landry: an autobiography”, Zondervan

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

  Tom Landry

  Life, Football, Commitment

  Tom Landry, Gregg A. Lewis (1990). “Tom Landry: an autobiography”, Zondervan

  144 Copy quote

• Today, you have 100% of your life left.

  Tom Landry

  Motivational, Sports, Starting Over

  85 Copy quote

• 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.

  Tom Landry

  Men, Discipline, Accepting

  141 Copy quote

• A winner never stops trying.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  111 Copy quote

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

  Tom Landry

  Leadership, Business, Want

  142 Copy quote

• If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.

  Tom Landry

  Motivational, Sports, Jobs

  115 Copy quote

• 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.

  Tom Landry

  Sports, Team, Character

  116 Copy quote

• When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

  Tom Landry

  Success, Sports, Football

  113 Copy quote

• 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.

  Tom Landry

  Differences, Champion, Half

  99 Copy quote

• 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.

  Tom Landry

  Football, Jobs, Army

  108 Copy quote

• 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.

  Tom Landry

  Motivational, Leadership, Teamwork

  101 Copy quote

• The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by.

  Tom Landry

  Successful, People, Use

  86 Copy quote

• Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

  Tom Landry

  Football, Texas, Texas Football

  99 Copy quote

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

  Tom Landry

  Football, Nfl, Winners In Life

  78 Copy quote

• 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.

  Tom Landry

  Basketball, Team, Past

  Tom Landry, Gregg A. Lewis (1990). “Tom Landry: an autobiography”, Zondervan

  98 Copy quote

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

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sports

  70 Copy quote

• The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

  Tom Landry

  Motivational, Teamwork, Winning

  55 Copy quote

• I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued.

  Tom Landry

  Decision, Firsts, Second Best

  10 Copy quote

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