Tom Landry asked each player: starter, star, or sub. Your answer becomes your goal, and he'd hold you to it. The speaker used the same question with his son Blake to clarify what he actually wanted from basketball.
Tom Landry, great coach. He's dead now, obviously, but he coached the Dallas Cowboys. He'd bring an individual player in and he'd ask him, what is it? What do you want? What do you want on this team? He'd say, you want to be a starter? You want to be a star? Or you want to be a sub? He said, now I don't care. He said, we are going to pay you a lot of money, the Dallas Cowboys. But he said, I want you to tell me, what do you want? You want to be a starter, star, or sub? Now it didn't matter. He said, but whatever you tell me it is, then my job is to hold you accountable for that. Then he had turned to him and say, but your job is to hold me accountable. I did this with my own son Blake when he was coming up 'cause he wanted to be a star basketball player. I said, I know how to do that 'cause I was. However, I also know what to do. I'm gonna tell you what to do.
