Roger Staubach
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"Roger Thomas Staubach" is a former star National Football League quarterback (American football)/quarterback who is executive chairman of Jones Lang LaSalle.

He attended the U.S. Naval Academy where he won a Heisman Trophy, and after graduation he served in the U.S. Navy, including a tour of duty in Vietnam War/Vietnam.

Staubach joined the Dallas Cowboys in 1969. He played with the club during five seasons in which they played in the Super Bowl, four as the primary starting quarterback. He led the Cowboys to victories in Super Bowl VI and Super Bowl XII. Staubach was named Super Bowl MVP/Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl VI, becoming the first of four players to win both the Heisman Trophy and Super Bowl MVP, along with Jim Plunkett, Marcus Allen and Desmond Howard. He was named to the Pro Bowl six times during his 11-year NFL career.

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I was able to talk to him in the huddle, and he always practiced hard and he always played hard, ... So it wasn't a distraction. But he never spoke to me off the field that year. It was a little weird.

To this day, I don't really know what happened with him, ... When he tried to make a comeback with us a few years later, I was pulling for him. He wasn't the same player, but everybody still liked Duane Thomas.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

That really adds a lot of great luster to this. They have a first-class operation, and Joe Gibbs is a first-class person, ... But I never changed my loyalty. I'm still a big Cowboys fan.

As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer, ... but a nervous wreck.

I would never tolerate a player on my team questioning my integrity. I don't think Donovan should have to, either.

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.