Tom Landry

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

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.

If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

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.

Take away winning, and you take away everything that is strong about America.

I probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.

Right after the game, say as little as possible.

People striving, being knocked down and coming back... this is what builds character in a man.

People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn't afraid of that. And I wasn't worried about getting fired. I knew the risk. To me, it's not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.

I wouldn't think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys' blue.