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Football Quotes by Tony Dungy

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Tony Dungy explains that a team should value performance over potential and pay well for truly special players. He emphasizes that real worth comes from character inside, not a jersey or number, and that learning from change means focusing on principles rather than procedures. He also notes the discipline needed to master weaknesses and the personal grief that can follow a season.

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I learned it doesn't matter how you win. You play to your team's strength.

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Winning would create greater potential for change than talk alone.

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And one game, as we know, can cost you a lot.

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God allows us to feel pain for a reason: to protect us.

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I said all along that God is in control.

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Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful.

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I'm probably going to be an Indianapolis fan.

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We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players.

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There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values.

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Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures.

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I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.

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At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.

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At the end of the day, the only people a One Voice doctrine silences are those who should be the most loyal.

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If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.

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The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.

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It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

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Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models…

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The biggest thing you need to be successful with it is a quarterback who wants to be involved in the decision-making process…

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I never wanted our players to think the Super Bowl was the ultimate. I always talk about 'Yes, we're going to win,…

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I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every…

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What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees…

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Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule…

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I do not think being a coordinator is a requirement, but it does give you some advantages. You get used to working…

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For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And…

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Michael Vick is a work in progress. I think he really is wanting to do the right thing. I think the Philadelphia…

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I love coaching football, and winning a Super Bowl was a goal I've had for a long time. But it has never…

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You don't win on emotion. You win on execution.

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If we do what we do without panicking, we can accomplish great things.

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Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.

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You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you have got to hang though together

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We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.

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I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.

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A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

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I realized that I needed to be more like the shepherd than the hired hand in protecting my team.

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Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.

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I hired top-notch people, trusted them to do their jobs, and then came to grips with the fact that I wouldn't be…

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The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family…

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And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

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And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.

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When it's over, it's over is part of football's greatest appeal to me. When a game ends, win or lose, it's time…

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“Without Peyton, there would be no Lucas Oil Stadium. This team would be playing in L.A. right now. I don't understand Jim saying this.”