Tom Landry Quotes

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

I may see a way I want to do something, and I understand when you have a team, everybody can't do their own thing. I'm willing to put my own agenda aside to do what's best for the team.

From collaborating with other people, you make concessions, and those concessions are great because sometimes you are definitely wrong.

We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating.

We can't always agree on everything.

I believe you can work with anybody.

Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.

In politics, you must let the other person have your way.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

I play well with everybody.

We aren't going to agree on everything and there will be other areas where we will be working together.

There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.

You don't compromise principles, but you harmonize tactics to preserve unity.

I think it's important to understand people can disagree on things, and still move forward.

By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. But I do believe in bringing people together.

We cannot agree on everything but we must agree on the framework.

When we come into the NSC, everybody has different opinions. At the end of the day, we present the president with all the facts. We let him make the decision. And we all, as a team, go out and support that decision.

Heck, nobody gets along perfectly. But what we have is respect for one another. We have a system where one guy can veto anything.

I can work with anyone.

Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

In the military, we are thrown into a melting pot of cultures and communities and we disagree a lot on how to accomplish the mission, but when it comes time to get the work done, we focus our energy on accomplishing the mission.

I'll play wherever I can help the team.

There's always been conflict, inherent conflict between players and coaches.