Tom Landry
Tom Landry
Thomas Wade "Tom" Landrywas an American football player and coach. He is ranked as one of the greatest and most innovative coaches in National Football Leaguehistory, creating many new formations and methods. He invented the now popular 4–3 defense, and the "flex defense" system made famous by the "Doomsday Defense" squads he created during his 29-year tenure with the Dallas Cowboys. His 29 consecutive years as the coach of one team are an NFL record, along with his 20 consecutive...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth11 September 1924
CityMission, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Tom Landry quotes about
Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.
If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
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.
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.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.
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.
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.
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.
A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.
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.