Leadership Quotes by Tony Dungy

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

— Tony Dungy

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.

— Tony Dungy

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

— Tony Dungy

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

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Winning would create greater potential for change than talk alone.

— Tony Dungy

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving.

— Tony Dungy

If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.

— Tony Dungy

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

— Tony Dungy

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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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.

— Tony Dungy

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

— Tony Dungy

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

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

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

— Tony Dungy

If you want to make a difference in the lives of the people you lead, you must be willing to walk alongside…

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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…

— Tony Dungy

Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or…

— Tony Dungy

(Offensive Coach) Paul Hackett realized that Joe Montana knew more about the offense than he did, but when the meeting was over,…

— Tony Dungy

We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it…

— Tony Dungy

“Building a life of significance, and creating a legacy of real value, means being willing to get your hands dirty. It means…

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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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If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

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Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.

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

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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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We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.

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God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.

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First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.

— Tony Dungy

I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather…

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What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

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If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?

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I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me.…

— Tony Dungy

They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions…

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There are certain bridges that are not worth crossing, no matter what others think. Loyalty and relationships are important.

— Tony Dungy