Tony Dungy Quotes

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
Tony Dungy

Success, Leadership, Good

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?
Tony Dungy

Yourself, Sorry, Situation

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.
Tony Dungy

Dad, Live, Children

Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.
Tony Dungy

Health, School, Live

Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going to have to bounce back from and some things that are a little unforeseen that you're going to have to deal with.
Tony Dungy

Everything, Perfect, Deal

People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.
Tony Dungy

Cool, Faith, Everything

I've said all along that God is in control.
Tony Dungy

God, Control, Said

Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.
Tony Dungy

Football, Win, Goal

Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.
Tony Dungy

God, Sometimes, Another

Don't shed any tears for me. I got to live a dream most people don't get to live.
Tony Dungy

Live, Dream, Tears

It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job.
Tony Dungy

We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.
Tony Dungy

Nation, Number, Top

We need somebody to give us a chance.
Tony Dungy

Give, Chance, Somebody

We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best.
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Best, Important, Together

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.
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Bad, Football, Mean

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.
Tony Dungy

Children, Night, Anyone

But I know I have a son who doesn't listen to anything I say and if he hears the same thing from someone else, sometimes it has a little more impact.
Tony Dungy

Someone, Same, Son

For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.
Tony Dungy

Football, Young, Leader

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.
Tony Dungy

Teacher, Mom, Book

I enjoy talking to young people, and talking to people about helping young people. That part is not a chore. It's pretty fun, and something I like to do because I think it's important.
Tony Dungy

Fun, Important, Enjoy

I guess I'm flattered that people think I can help get things done.
Tony Dungy

Help, Done, Guess

I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.
Tony Dungy

School, Learned, High

I just don't think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away.
Tony Dungy

Great, Away, Pass

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.
Tony Dungy

Best, School, Winning

I learned from Chuck Noll in Pittsburgh that speed and explosiveness on defense is the way to build a team. Both are difficult for your opponent to assimilate in practice and then in games it is even harder to match.
Tony Dungy

Learned, Team, Difficult

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Nationality: American

Type: Coach

Born: October 6, 1955

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