When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
—Tom Landry
Topics: Competition
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
Topics: Goal, Planning
If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
—Tom Landry
Topics: Planning, Preparation
A team that has character doesn’t need stimulation.
—Tom Landry
Topics: Motivation
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
Topics: Competition
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
—Tom Landry
Topics: Leadership
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
Topics: Teamwork, Teams
I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
—Tom Landry
Topics: Defeat
A winner never stops trying.
—Tom Landry
Topics: Winning, Trying, Effort, Winners
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
Topics: Leadership, Leaders
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