Words matter. These are the best Tony Dungy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We’re not hitting on all cylinders, defensively. When we’re playing good, I’ll let you know.
When I was15 years old, I couldn’t look at the NFL and look on TV and say, ‘Boy, there’s a head coach, African American. That’s something I’d like to do.’
We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.
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.
I just don’t think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away.
As humans, we don’t know what we should do. We don’t have those instincts like God has given animals. We have to see to know where we are going. It is just a natural human emotion to look for people to emulate.
Football was really my least favorite sport and the last sport that I ended up picking up as a kid. My dad started me off with baseball, which most kids did at that time. I really enjoyed basketball. That was my favorite sport.
I’ve said all along that God is in control.
Balance provides the chance for longevity. You can be a champion at work and at home.
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.
You should never be defined by what you do, by the things you have; you’ve got to define yourself by who you are and who you impact and how you impact people. And that’s the thing I try to get across to my players.
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?
It’s definitely harder being a dad than a coach.
People have to understand how important it is for kids to be nurtured by their mom and dad and get the great role modeling when they are young.
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.
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.
The first thing you have to do is make sure you’re still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.
I was a quarterback in college. I hoped to go to the NFL, and I didn’t get drafted. I then became a free agent. I could sign with whoever I wanted to, and I ended up going to Pittsburgh.
If you’re just saying, hey, I’m doing this. I’m working to make money. I’m working to increase my status. If that’s all there is, I think you will find out that it’s meaningless.
You can have an impact anywhere you are.
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.
Don’t shed any tears for me. I got to live a dream most people don’t get to live.
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.
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.
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.
As a young kid, I had a great background. My grandfather was a minister; I have two uncles that were ministers, and so I had that spiritual background. I accepted Christ early as a kid.
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.
What did you have the potential to do? And if you came close to that, if you maximized that, then you were a success in God’s eyes. So many of us do things that the world would say is successful, but we have so much more potential.
I’ve always talked to players about perception and reality. I don’t worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.
That’s the difference between the NCAA and the NFL right now. They’ve got to step up and say, ‘We’re going to do the right thing. We’re going to hire qualified people. We’re going to hire the best man for the job regardless of what boosters or anyone else has to say.’
The narrow path that ‘Uncommon’ people will take, that the Lord wants you to go down, that really is the ultimate way to go.
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.
To win those big games you’re going to have to complete some third-down passes, you’re going to have to be able to get some explosive games in the passing game.
