77 Quotes by Tom Landry

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

A winner never stops trying.

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.

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

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.

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

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.

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

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