Tom Landry Quotes About Coaching

• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be

  Tom Landry

  Basketball, Men, Coaching

• 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.

  Tom Landry

  Basketball, Teamwork, Strong

• 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.

  Tom Landry

  Basketball, Team, Past

  Tom Landry, Gregg A. Lewis (1990). “Tom Landry: an autobiography”, Zondervan

• The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

  Tom Landry

  Motivational, Teamwork, Winning

• 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

  Motivational, Leadership, Teamwork

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