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
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
Today, you have 100% of your life left.
If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
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.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Plastic Man, ... Actually, no man at all.
A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.
Right after the game, say as little as possible.
I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued.
I like the South because it is so much warmer on the sidelines than it is up North.
...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.