Best Quotes by Tom Landry (Top 10)

  1. 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
  2. Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
  3. 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.
  4. The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.
  5. Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
  6. When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
  7. If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
  8. 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.
  9. Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
  10. First become a winner in life. Then it's easier to become a winner on the field.

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