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.
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 winner never stops trying.
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
As a Christian, I know my life is in God's hands. He has a plan for me. Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.
Being the best at whatever talent you have, that's what stimulates life.
Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.
If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
If you don't believe in winning, you don't believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.
My hats did give me an identity. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time someone has seen me bareheaded and said, 'I almost didn't recognize you without a hat on', I could have bought the Cowboys myself.
Confidence comes from knowing what you're doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
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.
If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect... what are the alternatives?
