Tom Landry famous quotes

05-12-2025

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

#Leadership #Want #Coaches
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 #Teamwork
A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.
-- Tom Landry

#Football #Giving Up #Champion
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
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
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
-- Tom Landry

#Sports #Winning #Games
Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.
-- Tom Landry

#Football #Texas #Priests
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
-- Tom Landry

#Inspirational #Sports #Athlete
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 #Steps
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
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 #Confidence
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
-- Tom Landry

#Inspirational #Sports #Football
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
The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by.
-- Tom Landry

#Successful #People #Yardsticks
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
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
I like the South because it is so much warmer on the sidelines than it is up North.
-- Tom Landry

#Southern #Sidelines
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.
-- Tom Landry

#Life #Football #Commitment
First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.
-- Tom Landry

#Football #Fields #Firsts
Right after the game, say as little as possible.
-- Tom Landry

#Football #Games #Littles
A winner never stops trying.
-- Tom Landry

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success
The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
-- Tom Landry

#Motivational #Teamwork #Winning
A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.
-- Tom Landry

#Football #Team #Character
Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be
-- Tom Landry

#Basketball #Men #Coaching
Today, you have 100% of your life left.
-- Tom Landry

#Sports #Motivational Sports #Today
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
...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.
-- Tom Landry

#Winning #Years #Competition
If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
-- Tom Landry

#Motivational #Sports #Jobs

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