50+ Dallas Cowboys Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Empower You

"I want all Cowboys to know that I'm gonna lead us through this and get us to a Super Bowl."

- Jerry Jones

"I’ve never been a fan of this ‘manage the game’ stuff. It doesn’t make sense to pay guys to make plays, then tell them to go out and not make mistakes."

- Troy Aikman

"As a player, you’re gonna make plays but you’ve got to look at the mistakes that you made and see what you can do to help the team and eliminate those mistakes."

- DeMarcus Ware

"The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts."

- Bill Parcells

"Just think about the game. Think about playing great, having a great time. Helping your team win."

- Deion Sanders

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

- Lou Holtz

"The harder I work, the luckier I get."

- Gary Player

"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

"If you’re going to bet on somebody, it’s best to bet on yourself."

- Martellus Bennett

"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile."

- Roger Staubach

"A winner never stops trying."

- Tom Landry

"We all do well when things are going well. What distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great pressure."

- Roger Staubach

"If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat."

- Herschel Walker

"Confidence is what swagger is."

- Michael Irvin

"I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat."

- Tom Landry

"The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves."

- Mike Ditka

"Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve."

- Tom Landry

"Losers assemble in little groups and complain… but winners assemble as a team."

- Bill Parcells

"Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team."

- Tom Landry

"Really it comes down to your philosophy. Do you want to play it safe and be good or do you want to take a chance and be great?"

- Jimmy Johnson

"Accept false steps as opportunities to learn…it’s one thing to hate failure; it’s another to fear it."

- Bill Parcells

"If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done."

- Mike Ditka

"Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be."

- Mike Ditka

"A coach tells you what you don’t want to hear, has you see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be."

- Tom Landry

"True leaders stand up to be counted in crunch time. Rather than run from the heat of a demanding job or tough judgment, they welcome it; they understand that it comes with the territory."

- Bill Parcells

"This is what matters to me: Not all the big numbers, the fancy statistics. I want to make the plays that count."

- Keyshawn Johnson

"What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand."

- Bill Parcells

"Passionate people, with a single-minded focus don’t listen to the noise."

- Jason Garrett

"I was 0-11 as a [rookie] starter, but we didn’t throw in the towel. We all pulled together to do whatever was necessary to succeed."

- Troy Aikman

"Leaders have to work harder than the people they hope to motivate."

- Bill Parcells

"Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream."

- Emmitt Smith

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"Spectacular achievements come from unspectacular preparation."

- Roger Staubach

"Treat a person as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be and he will become what he should be."

- Jimmy Johnson

"Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy."

- Mike Ditka

"How ’bout them Cowboys."

- Jimmy Johnson

"Big-time players make Big-time plays in Big-time games."

- Jimmy Johnson

"Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. Its a result of something; hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication."

- Roger Staubach

"When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn."

- Tom Landry

"You’re never a loser until you quit trying."

- Mike Ditka

"There comes a point in a game where you gotta make a play or do something to get your team over the hump. When that time comes you gotta be able to do it."

- Tony Romo

"Winning isn’t getting ahead of others. It’s getting ahead of yourself."

- Roger Staubach

"It’s blood, sweat, sometimes tears."

- "Bullet" Bob Hayes

"I’m not really in the excuse business."

- Bill Parcells

"In my experience, you learn far more from winning, which also makes your players more receptive to criticism."

- Bill Parcells

"There's only one way, and that's the way you prepare."

- Emmitt Smith

"Once you have done everything that you possibly can – you’ve put forth your greatest effort – then I can live with whatever’s next."

- Bill Parcells

"If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let’s face it."

- Mike Ditka

"I’ve never bought into the idea that you learn much from losing."

- Bill Parcells

"You can only really yell at the players you trust."

- Bill Parcells

"If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed."

- Terrell Owens

"Give role players love. Praise can be most valuable when it’s merited by someone whose supporting role is often overlooked."

- Bill Parcells

"It's not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."

- Paul "Bear" Bryant

"Success is dependent upon each other as well as commitment and character."

- Bill Parcells

"You see him run by a secondary player and then when he puts that stiff-arm [out] you quit worrying about him a little bit. He’s the daddy when he does that."

- Jerry Jones

"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."

- Barry Switzer

"The Cowboys taught me the purpose of life is bigger than life itself."

- Roger Staubach

"Do your job, not someone else's."

- Jason Witten

"I'm proud to have been a Dallas Cowboy."

- Randy White

"The Cowboys are my team and will always be my team."

- Michael Irvin

"Don’t worry about it. It’s just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball."

- Bill Parcells